Not Back to School Camp
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Not Back To School Camp is a summer camp created by Grace Llewellyn, the author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Llewellyn founded the camp in 1996 to provide a place for homeschoolers and unschoolers aged thirteen through eighteen to meet and hang out. As of 2006 there are three sessions: one in Plymouth, Vermont at the Farm and Wilderness Camps, and two outside of Bridge, Oregon at Camp Myrtlewood.
[edit] Camp regime
Like the lives of unschoolers, the activities (known as workshops) are created by the unschoolers themselves. They range from youth rights discussions to dancing to martial arts to writing to meditation.
It is a very loose environment. Campers choose what to do with their days, their own bedtimes, etc. The only required moment of the day is a check-in every morning and evening.
[edit] Un/homeschooling
Though the camp started in Oregon, there are now camps in Vermont and West Virginia. It (and un/homeschooling) has been growing in popularity, and many home and unschoolers hope that this means more people will open their eyes and consider alternate ways of living and learning.
