When Milo was in kindergarten, I read Seth Godin’s Stop Stealing Dreams, which argues that schools are no longer the appropriate way to educate children. The essay haunted me for years, as I sent Milo to public school, to sit in a chair all day and have uninteresting (to him) information pushed on him. Two months into Milo’s 7th grade, Jen and I decided to pull him out for two years. Reasons included: His middle school was pretty bad. He was still young enough to enjoy spending time with ...
