The DFW School-Free Education Zone is a progressive support group for parents/guardians of unschoolers. We are pretty relaxed about pretty much everything. We are a secular (non-religious-affiliated) group, so we have no "statement of faith" or biblical mandates to follow. We don't care if you are Catholic, Atheist, Hindu, or Pagan. (Religious fundamentalists/zealots/evangelists need not apply.)

As unschoolers, we believe that child-led learning is preferable to arbitrarily imposed curriculum use. Some of our members are veeeery relaxed "eclectic" home-learners who are morphing into unschooling, or recently-out-of-school, novice home-learners who think unschooling could work for them and are here to learn all they can about it. We are not a conservative school-at-home group, and find little reason to discuss "how to make Johnny finish his English paper," but can get intense about respecting children and gentle parenting...and about learning! What we do discuss are politics & justice, health & organic living, saving the environment, and anything else that affects our children and the world we'll leave them.

What we also see as paramount is having fun and playing together! Basically, we like our kids, like each other's kids and enjoy spending time together. We have regular park days, seasonal parties, field trips, "meet & greets," volunteer opportunities, and other events.

We are based in Flower Mound, in the center of the Dallas/Ft. Worth/Denton triangle, and have members from all over the metroplex and surrounding areas.

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