I’m Simi, formerly a primary school teacher and tutor (Europe) of nearly fifteen years, turned passionate home educator, home educating my only child. We are based in England. In this blog I will tell you stories of my experience in a system that was meant to be broken and of the wild ride from forced mainstream teaching to unschooling.
~”And now it feels like full circle. My daughter has always lived life without school, but I hear the stories from fellow home educators and their children, who were in the system but left….the stories of their children crying on the kitchen floor on a Sunday evening, because they dread going back on Monday…and facing their bullies…The world becoming stranger and more dangerous, upside down and backwards….and their relief when they take them home….to live, to learn….in freedom.”
This is our journey of a learner.
I write about both my experience as a teacher and as a pupil and the thread that takes me there and back, again and again, connecting to the now, the why of my choices and the journey I am on with my daughter.
Follow us on instagram @thejourneyofalearner for more visual storytelling and our daily adventures.
1) As the author of the blogs you will see ‘thechronicpainchallenge’; this is my ‘admin signature’ here – it is my other page with the story of my chronic pain journey. Do take a look if that speaks to you as well: http://www.thechronicpainchallenge.org
2) I am not very technical and post all of these myself, there might be clumsy mistakes along the way 🙂
3) English is not my native language (=third) You may notice…or not 😉
Simi.
The Journey of a Learner 