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Originally Posted by Acajack
School definitely needs some adjustments but I am not really among those who would throw the baby out with the bathwater. I'd even admit to being an open-minded traditionalist when it comes to this stuff.
Kids sitting at schooldesks and learning with a teacher has been the way we've done things for a couple thousand years. It has allowed us to build machines that can lift an incredible weight off the ground and travel unthinkable distances totally safely 99.99% of the time, implant an artificial heart into people's bodies and have men walk on the moon and return to Earth safely to talk about it.
Not a bad track record.
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Yes I'll agree with this generally, though that article VANRIDERFAN shared makes a lot of good points. It's no easy switch though. I think there's a lot that schools do for kids outside of the curriculum of the classroom. It's a social environment, teachers can help kids in all kinds of ways, and notice things about kids that their parents may overlook.
Now the cynical view is that teachers don't give a shit and they are just mailing it it, pushing kids through the system. I'm sure there's some of that, but it's far from the majority.
There's something to be said for taking kids from all backgrounds and putting them in the same room together. I'm all for more public schools, and less private schooling or any type of segregation.
It's a reality of modern life that we rely on schooling to babysit kids while both parents work. That's another problem.