life in the radical lane
I’m working on my tentatively titled Free The Children! zine today.

It’s an introductory zine on unschooling.  I’m not sure how it’ll end up looking once it’s finished, but I’m trying to come up with a tentative table of contents, and this is what it includes so far.  Where I don’t have titles yet, I just list the subject!  Also note that the order these chapters appear in is very likely to change.

  • A short introduction
  • Unschooling: Life and Learning as Inseparable Entities (or, What is Unschooling?)
  • Growing in Freedom… Unschooling in the Younger Years
  • Unschooling in the teenage years
  • Rising Out: The Choice to Leave School
  • Why the Schooling Institution Sucks
  • Unschooling Grows Up: Beyond High School
  • What is Success, Anyway?
  • Common Criticisms, and Why They’re Wrong
  • The Right to Freedom
  • Resources/Further Reading

So that’s what I’m thinking at this point!  Like I said, this is all very tentative…  And exciting!  I’ll be selling it at the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair this May, so I actually have a deadline to meet here, which I’m using to spur me into actually writing this thing (I started it back in November, then just let it sit, untouched, until now)!

I want this to include all the basics, so if there’s a subject or specific point you think it would be important for me to include, please do let me know!  I always love feedback, and am striving to write something you’d actually want to read, here.

So, any ideas?