Today, in the times when people have made the schools their children study in a status symbol, the idea of “unschooling” is very unlikely to succeed, if you care about the societal standards.
However, if you are above such taboos and think that the well-being of your child is more important than people’s opinion, it can prove to be a brilliant idea, if correctly executed. The great minds like Albert Einstein and Shakespeare were never made to work in the restricted environment of school, they were self-taught. Einstein’s teacher even told his parents that he could never become a successful man. The rest is history.
But these great people were successful because they knew their both their way and their destination. If your child in clear enough of his/her passion and if you are sure enough to support him/her in whatever failure and success, unschooling can be better than the modern schooling that people get these days.