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I don't think this holds true here. If parents neglect a child, they're not going to do well, full stop. "Neglect" is what the parent specifically called his experience. Unschooling cannot be successful in an environment where the parent is neglecting the child; the article even addresses this with three examples from their study where the parents quickly failed in their task to guide their child's education, self-directed or not.

> The parent commenter says "I personally experienced X and it was not great for me"

No. The parent commenter clearly mentioned “Never heard of this Unschool term”.

The parent commenter then went on to talk about their experience with a different topic - essentially lack of schooling.

Just because the names sound related doesn’t mean they are the same thing.

I don't think nostrebored said beer_cub's experience could not have been unschooling. nostrebored instead said that some unschooling is different than beer_cub's experience, and gave the anecdote that everyone nostrebored met had a different experience than beer_cub.