Brett Veinotte

Pat Farenga is a leading unschooling advocate, and the father of three adult unschooled children. He worked closely with unschooling pioneer John Holt on the Growing Without Schooling Magazine, and in the […]

Sandra Dodd is a world-renown unschooling and natural learning advocate, and the mother of three adult unschooled children. Her website SandraDodd.com is one of the most comprehensive unschooling resources on the […]

The best and most uncomfortable meeting yet.

– Brett and Andrew have a fight.
– Brett: Social fatigue, paranoia, alienation, feeling interrogated. Then an epiphany.
– Andrew: Productivity jack-offery isn’t […]

This is audio of my two presentations on the Contra Cruise, including a speech, an impromptu workshop and an Ask Me Anything.

My speech was written as the cruise progressed and it was delivered in two parts on […]

In Remembrance 1935-2018
A monologue about the courageous life and work of John Taylor Gatto, and the story of how he changed my life.

How many teachers reluctantly acknowledge the failure of mass compulsory […]

21st century career advice that guidance counselors don’t provide. Zak Slayback returns to discuss some helpful action items ambitious high school students can embrace to position themselves ahead of college […]

(AUDIO, 89 MINUTES) In this series, we will build upon and grow our strengths, highlight and improve our weaknesses, diversify and increase our personal and professional skill sets. This ongoing saga will be an […]

Alex Bell was the teenager I had mind when I first started this whole School Sucks project. Struggling through school and variety of personal challenges, he was the kind of person I hoped to reach. Unfortunately, […]

(AUDIO, 125 MINUTES) In this series, we will build upon and grow our strengths, highlight and improve our weaknesses, diversify and increase our personal and professional skill sets. This ongoing saga will be an […]

(AUDIO, 64 MINUTES) The first installment of our new supporter-only show – In this series, we will build upon and grow our strengths, highlight and improve our weaknesses, diversify and increase our personal and […]

(AUDIO, 63 MINUTES) The first installment of our new supporter-only show – In this series, we will build upon and grow our strengths, highlight and improve our weaknesses, diversify and increase our personal and […]

Part 3 of 3: “Last Looks”

Tomas “Dutch” Deckaj and Scott Bowers are film makers and School Sucks Podcast listeners. I met them last spring in New Orleans where they were working together on a project.

Dutch […]

Since 2013, Thaddeus Russell made an impact on my life in five areas – as a historian and author, as a podcaster and podcast guest, as a philosopher, as a business partner, and as a friend.

And that impact was […]

A quick discussion about understanding the fears and motivations behind the development of the public schooling system in America. Shane Radliff and I discuss the radical school reform movement of the 1960s and […]

Shane Radliff is a School Sucks listener and the creator of the popular website and podcast, Liberty Under Attack. In this joint production, we discuss the benefits, challenges and lessons of a […]

Part 2 of 3: “Soft Prep”

Tomas “Dutch” Deckaj and Scott Bowers are film makers and School Sucks Podcast listeners. I met them last spring in New Orleans where they were working together on a project.

Dutch […]

In this thinly-veiled 52-minute promotion for the Contra Cruise, happening October 21-28 (tickets available at ContraCruise.com), Tom and I open talking about the cruise, highlights from previous cruises, and the […]

Part 1 of 3: “Film/School” – Tomas “Dutch” Deckaj and Scott Bowers are film makers and School Sucks Podcast listeners. I met them last spring in New Orleans where they were working together on a project.

Dutch […]

Back to SchoolSucks! We return with an exploration of why and how we can embrace an opportunity that has never existed in all of human history. We’re talking about lifestyle entrepreneurship and location/schedule […]

Moritz and I discuss his current work on Holochain, and its role in resolving the digital malaise we’ve been discussing in this series. This malaise includes “fake news,” information (or input) overload, social […]