Why all this hate for schools? The case of the Famiglia nel Bosco

Recently here in Italy the case of the “Famiglia nel Bosco” or Family in the Woods made headlines. It was a family living in radical isolation in the Abruzzo region. The English father and Australian mother decided together with their children, an 8-year-old girl and a pair of 6-year-old twins, to live off-grid in a totally isolated house.

They adopted so-called neo-ruralism. They lived without basic services like electricity, running water or conventional heating and maintained almost total social and technological isolation.