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Governments all over the world will use the agenda "social media is bad, people need to be protected from it" to regulate how we interact with each other over d

by Kenji 9y ago

Governments all over the world will use the agenda "social media is bad, people need to be protected from it" to regulate how we interact with each other over digital media. This will stifle our ability to communicate and organize against laws and government actions that are not right. Meanwhile school homework gets more and more ridiculous and children get medicated with who knows what kind of psychoactive substances because they cannot deal with it, but no, that's not the cause of teenager mental health problems.

visarga 9y ago
> Meanwhile school homework gets more and more ridiculous Parents need to adjust their expectations, or the kids are caught between a rock and a hard place. The school won't show mercy.
- fwn 9y ago
  > The school won't show mercy. I guess this is very specific to the US phenomenon explained in the article. In my German schooling history, cheating the homework was trivial and well established. Everyone got the degree and it was a running gag that grades are inflated. If you fail you can just switch systems and do the degree somewhere else; no hard feelings. If you don't want to switch (because let's say you can't get another school to take you in the area and want to continue to live with your parents) there is a second educational path (zweiter Bildungsweg) which allows you do retry to get the degree. From my perspective, the pressure I was feeling was entirely self-made and - in retrospective - unnecessary. Therefore: I would love to see evidence whether or not those findings get approved in other educational systems like in the German speaking countries.
- eli_gottlieb 9y ago
  The schools need to come up with ways to teach more material, more rigorously, in fewer years -- at least for the intelligent students with healthy upbringings. You cannot expect the school system to function as psychological counselors, remedial educators, baby-sitters, and rigorous educators all in one. Society's choice has been to take the first three and sacrifice the last one, as a result of which, students have more and more "work" imposed on them, with standards for excellence becoming steadily more inflated, without undergraduate-, postgraduate-, and professional-level outcomes improving linearly.

by Kenji 9y ago

visarga 9y ago

> Meanwhile school homework gets more and more ridiculous Parents need to adjust their expectations, or the kids are caught between a rock and a hard place. The school won't show mercy.

fwn 9y ago
> The school won't show mercy. I guess this is very specific to the US phenomenon explained in the article. In my German schooling history, cheating the homework was trivial and well established. Everyone got the degree and it was a running gag that grades are inflated. If you fail you can just switch systems and do the degree somewhere else; no hard feelings. If you don't want to switch (because let's say you can't get another school to take you in the area and want to continue to live with your parents) there is a second educational path (zweiter Bildungsweg) which allows you do retry to get the degree. From my perspective, the pressure I was feeling was entirely self-made and - in retrospective - unnecessary. Therefore: I would love to see evidence whether or not those findings get approved in other educational systems like in the German speaking countries.
eli_gottlieb 9y ago
The schools need to come up with ways to teach more material, more rigorously, in fewer years -- at least for the intelligent students with healthy upbringings. You cannot expect the school system to function as psychological counselors, remedial educators, baby-sitters, and rigorous educators all in one. Society's choice has been to take the first three and sacrifice the last one, as a result of which, students have more and more "work" imposed on them, with standards for excellence becoming steadily more inflated, without undergraduate-, postgraduate-, and professional-level outcomes improving linearly.