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I wonder if there are stats on how many hours per year students at public schools spend lining up or waiting in line. Can we measure the impacts of 'disobedien
by jgord 10y ago
I wonder if there are stats on how many hours per year students at public schools spend lining up or waiting in line. Can we measure the impacts of 'disobedience' - what is the penalty at various levels of school for refusing to line up (maybe this is less of thing in the US than in UK-style schools)? You could also study the value of repeating back the exact words of the teacher and correlate that with grade performance or good behavior ratings. It may be immoral to do these experiments, but there should be some way to measure the amount of time on control vs learning happening in public schools.
There are many valid reasons to homeschool - wanting a first rate academic education, having children think for themselves, removing them from artificially controlling and overly magnified peer pressure, to better match learning rates and styles, avoid negative expectations of your cultural demographic, solve bullying or drug problems that cant be resolved through other means, focusing on a musical instrument or elite sport etc.
I'm not sure how best to address the converse problem - homeschool parents who _do_ seek to indoctrinate their children without giving them a wider view of societal norms. But I think its possible that parents can do that anyway, even if children _are_ attending school. I guess all parents [ and teachers ] do this to an extent, imparting a few bad memes along with the good ones is unavoidable in practice.. but hopefully averaged out by meeting other people. Maybe thats why things like travel and reading fiction and going to a distant university are so valuable - you get to compare your memeset with other peoples.