
After the epidemic altered the educational system four years ago, the majority of American school districts have reverted to their pre-2020 practices. Many guardians and parents found it exceedingly difficult to educate their children while they were enrolled in remote learning, as compared to being in the classroom.
After years of failing in the standard school setting, many parents are trying to figure out how to help their children succeed, while other families have decided to forego education in favor of a more controversial approach.
A mother has come under fire for her unconventional approach to homeschooling; she taught her two young children by following their interests rather than following a set curriculum.
Famed TikTok user Mami Onami, who has the phrase “gentleness” tattooed across her forehead, recently promoted the “free-schooling” or “unschooling” approach to education that she uses with her two children, a son and a daughter, aged three and six, respectively. (She is currently pregnant with her third child.)
She said she doesn’t teach her children anything; she follows their interests or questions, which dictates everything that they learn.
There is no curriculum and no school hours. Mami was born into the infamous doomsday cult, The Children of God.
She said she simply answers her children’s questions whenever they ask and tries her best to ensure they fully understand.
“They would never be interested in things like reading and writing and math,” she said
According to Mighty Writer, the typical expectation for six-year-olds is that they can spell and identify essential words and start to write short sentences with two parts: a subject and a verb.
According to Understood.org, children should be able to write a page or more about their personal experiences and what they’re learning in school by the time they are six or seven years old.
Thousands of people, most of whom were quite disturbed by Mami’s pedagogical philosophy, flocked to TikTok’s comment area.
The comments were almost exclusively unkind.
Mami seemed unfazed by the animosity and unwavering in her beliefs.