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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by fao_ on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:00PM (#10230190) 

  Unschooling is a subset of homeschooling.
No, Unschooling is a subset of Home Education. So is Home Schooling. The distinction is important, since while both count as education, only one is school-at-home.

The rest of the post is rather accurate though, although I would say that with the robotics, the unschooling parent would probably take the kids to a local Radioshack (Or Maplin's, if you're in the UK!) and buy a book on electronics, along with a few bits and bobs (motors, etc), encourage the kid to experiment, and encourage them to join a local engineering group :D

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by logfromblammo on Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:51PM (#10234947)
If you go to Radio Shack tomorrow, looking for robot parts, you're going to come back disappointed.
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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by fao_ on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @04:51PM (#10268097) 

  buy a book on electronics, along with a few bits and bobs (motors, etc)
I assume that Radio Shack has in stock a small collection of resistors and motors, at the least. If not then I feel very sorry for you USA-ians.
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