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.
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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.
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Though the camp started in Oregon, there is now also a camp in Vermont, and in previous years there was also a camp in 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 minds to alternate ways of living and learning.
