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Penelope Trunk
Personal blog · homeschooling.penelopetrunk.comculturecareer
Penelope Trunk's personal blog at homeschooling.penelopetrunk.com covers culture and career. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Penelope Trunk's blog for its writing on homeschooling and alternative education, including Montessori. The linked posts cover parenting and schooling choices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I started this blog in 2011 when I started seeing research about homeschooling. A few months later I took my kids out of school.
What Hacker News says?
That's the theory, anyway. http://homeschooling.penelopetrunk.com/2013/09/18/montessori...
Comment linking /2013/09/18/montessori-schools-dont-work-for-young-boys/
on “My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me”Submitted Don't teach your kids to write code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think that he should get his GED and drop out. If he's already running a business with that much revenue, then he stands to learn far more from dropping out than from staying in high school. I think that you should also reframe the situation by not calling it "dropping out." He will be homeschooled in an unschooling environment, which is what it's called when you let kids do what they want. In his case, what he wa…
Comment linking /2012/04/27/top-universities-want-you-to-homeschool/
on “Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been asked to intervene”Submitted 5 reasons why you don't need to teach math as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Video games as learning tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussion