The lack of structure involved with unschooling may prove disadvantageous for student’s
learning. Unschooling is a form of learning that usually involves little structure, no classrooms,
no strict schedules, and no age-segregation (Morrison, 2007). Most school-aged children are at a
developmental stage where they need structure and a lot of guidance (Thomas & Wray, 2012).
The idea of unschooling allows students to guide their own learning. Some unschooling parents
set more structure in place than others, such as by limiting television and video game
consumption. Critics argue that without such boundaries in place, students can and likely will sit
and watch television or play video games all day (Martin et al., 2011). While this may be a
possibility, the authors provided no such evidence of this behavior. The idea of unschooling
assumes that children are “naturally curious” and have a desire to thrive and learn that is innate.
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Without hindering and limiting such desire, children will learn on their own and grow in ways
that make sense to them and help them become highly functioning members of society