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The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling Hardcover – August 7, 2012

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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Perigee Books; 1 edition (August 7, 2012)
  • Language: English
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4.0 out of 5 starsLoved this book
By Peeshka on August 10, 2012
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I came across a WSJ article written by this author and immediately loved the way she wrote about homeschool. As someone who just recently began a homeschooling journey for similar reasons (i.e. non-religious reasons), I really connected with what she wrote and promptly pre-ordered her book (something I never do) after perusing her blog for a bit.

Here are my thoughts:
The Good:
Cummings is truly, truly hilarious. She writes extremely well, she is candid, and she tickles your funny bone in that Tina Fey sort of way. I thoroughly enjoyed the way she wrote.
She is insightful, I really loved her thoughts and probing into homeschool culture, history, and motives.
I also enjoyed the simple fact that her writing style was mature and easy to follow. You really get sucked into her book and her endless creative comparisons and similes.
Lastly, by the end of the book you have a thorough, honest overview of her ups and downs with homeschool. Instead of sugar coating things, Cummings is extremely honest about her questioning, the difficulties, and some of the awkward run-ins you have with people who can have such strong opinions about the choices you are making for your child.

The Bad:
I was raving about this book and would easily have given it 5 stars until I got to the section where she starts going to the conventions. I fully believed when I read about the first convention that she truly was interested and moved by the Radical Unschoolers, crazy as they seemed. However, by the time this self-proclaimed feminist was traipsing across the country to dabble with and dress like Fundamentalist Homeschoolers, Gothard, and Homeschool Prommers under the guise of truly being interested or intrigued by their passion or whatnot, I started to doubt her motives.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsa half order of homeschool with some online, public, and private classes on the side please
By Tony Rojko on August 8, 2012
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Before I read Cummings' engaging account of her family's adventures in homeschooling, I feared that my family had merely been clumsily and perhaps foolishly stumbling about among various public, private, online, and homeschooling options in search of that ever elusive ideal schooling environment. To our pleasant surprise, Cummings' book taught us that we might instead be in the vanguard of a new generation of Roam Schoolers, artisans who weave together selected squares of educational fabric from a multitude of schooling environments and learning opportunities. She writes ...

'As our habits evolve, it won't be home schooling as we've known it, but it won't be brick-and-mortar schooling, either. I call it "roam schooling." Imagine that your high-school junior spends half of every day at the brick-and-mortar school up the street. Two afternoons a week, he logs into an art-history seminar being taught by a grad student in Paris. He takes computer animation classes at the local college, sings in the church choir and dives at the community pool. He studies Web design on YouTube. He and three classmates see a tutor at the public library who preps them for AP Chemistry. He practices Spanish on Skype and takes cooking lessons at a nearby restaurant every Saturday morning. Is this home schooling or regular school? Who cares? He's learning.'

As presaged by the title, her writing is quite irreverent, punchy, and witty yet well researched and highly informative. With her development of the concept of Roam Schooling, she helps me better understand my own family's efforts to integrate the strongest and avoid the weakest aspects of home, online, public, and private schooling for both of our boys.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRefreshing!
By SSHomeschool on September 2, 2012
Format: Hardcover
If laughter is good medicine, you will be getting a Costco sized Rx. As a homeschooler just starting our 2nd year, I was encouraged to read of her similar struggles on so many of the issues that come with teaching your child at home. Trying to find the "pack" with whom you belong is especially challenging, and it was great to share a laugh with someone who has been there/done that. As a "Christian" homeschooler, there was some potential for insult, but her opinions were candid & honest. (This is coming from someone who might want to sneak into a extreme couponing seminar just to see if they really encourage people to clear the shelf of free mustard so the rest of us cannot get a good deal on 1 bottle!) But back to the book... with the school year upon us, it definately helped me to "lighten up!" and not take it all so seriously, for a change.
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3.0 out of 5 starsWhy the focus on extremist fringe groups of homeschoolers?
By Monika on January 24, 2014
Format: Hardcover
In The Year of Learning Dangerously, Quinn Cummings chronicles her family's decision to take her daughter out of public school and homeschool for a year. It starts off great. Cummings addresses her reasons for choosing to homeschool, as well as some of the concerns parents (and other people) have. I especially appreciated her comebacks to the tired "what about socialization?" questions and comments.

There are plenty of witty moments, ones all of us who homeschool can relate to. But shortly after the opening few chapters, I started to have mixed feelings about the book.

What bothered me is this: While exploring some of the different homeschooling styles, she seemed to purposefully seek out minority fringe groups rather than looking into what typical homeschoolers do. For example, the entire unschooling chapter was about radical unschoolers… at a convention, no less. Why cover radical unschooling but not unschooling, which is far more common?

She also had a tendency to gloss or even skip over points in order to be clever and funny. Her overview of classical education was more of a caricature than reality. She couldn't finish reading The Well Trained Mind to see the big picture? Okay, fair enough; it is a massive text. But why not visit the Well-Trained Mind message forum instead? Or seek out local classical homeschoolers and ask what they do on a normal day?

It seemed as if she was looking for the most outrageous examples of homeschooling approaches. What was the overall point of doing so? Shock value? It certainly doesn't seem like she bothered trying for a fair representation of typical homeschoolers.Read more ›
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I can't imagine that this book will be helpful to anyone. The author continually disdains learning for herself and other adults, pointing out over and over how shallow and... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Wendy
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent, hilarious

I wish Quinn Cummings would do nothing but write books. I love everything I read by her, including Facebook posts, Tweets and blog posts. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Elaine
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Published 14 months ago by Camille Di Maio
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Hilariously Funny and a must read for every home school family !

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