Much of this learning is free choice1 in nature
and the learners are anything but the usual suspects. In addition to K-16 students,
they include increasing numbers of home educators, post-high school adults, some
of whom either are not privileged enough or do not choose to further their schooling
at university or community college, adults who did not graduate from high school at
all, increasing numbers of young elders, only rising in number each year, and
school-age children during out-of-school time.