#20 Unschooling – Unschooling or Unhoming?

Now that we have reviewed what unschooling is and isn’t, I would like to challenge you to think in a different way. Tell me what to do! This is what we have been trained to ask. We naturally avoid taking risks so it is easy to default to having someone or something direct our thinking and actions. The big question is: what is all this based on? What worldview premise are we establishing our thoughts and actions on? There really are only two options available as far as the Bible goes: We are either for Him or against Him. This is not to say people are cognizant of this choice, but in the end, either things are based on faith in God, complete with all that brings, or we find ourselves on the other side of street, whether we have made a conscience effort to be there or not. In fact, I would be willing to bet that most people have no idea they are on the wrong side, including professing Christians. To understand what this wrong side of the street is, let us consider a few self-evident truths. Only a mom and dad can create children. The environment in which they are to be raised is called family. Family has been around infinitely longer than compulsory schools. So what should be considered normal, a family at home or students in school? Having said that, should we not be considering that it is school that is undoing the home God created as the safe and caring environment in which to raise, train, teach and educate children? Families in homes were here first. When considering the directive of Mathew 19:5-6 where we are told not to separate families, it makes sense to see compulsory government schooling as “unhoming.” Instead we refer to escaping the secular school system, whether public, separate, charter, alternative, private or home schooling as “unschooling”. Does it not make more sense to see relatively new “schooling” as an affront to age old “homing”? Hopefully you see what I mean. If family is foundational, should we be unschooling or should we simply consider ourselves to be homing? The term unschooling actually establishes school as foundational, normal, even authoritative. Unschoolers inadvertently agree with government having an authority in education and we have determined to rebel by not doing as expected, hence the term unschooling. We determine to “un” what is in fact an imposition over what God has directed. Why should unschoolers be the weird ones? Should families at home not be the standard? If so, we should see ourselves as rightfully homing our children and schools as engaging in “unhoming.” Just a thought. https://www.educationunlimited.ca/insights/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20-Unschooling-or-Unhoming.mp3