Some parents take homeschooling a step further with world-schooling, or educating children through shared travel experiences. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “World Schooling”
A couple of months ago, I ran into a woman and her teenage daughter, and the teenage daughter was really, really self-possessed, really almost like an adult talking with me. And her mother said, oh yeah, we’ve been world schooling her. World schoolers are people who take their kids off around the world for a year or for more than that.
You know, they take a gap year.
Oh, yeah.
I know families like that who’ve done the sailing around the world with their kids. And I know a family that went to Italy and their kids are all great. And they learn so much about food and culture and language.
Right.
And they’re tradeoffs, of course. But there is this whole growing group of parents who are world schooling their children. And they’re finding each other online and talking about it.
I love it.
What I wouldn’t have killed as a child to be world schooled.
Oh, can you imagine?
Yeah.
I wanted nothing more than to leave home and go do something else.
