Its interesting that if you have legacy baggage and technical debt, you can't NOT lock kids in cages for a whole day and all that industrial era foolishness, wh

Its interesting that if you have legacy baggage and technical debt, you can't NOT lock kids in cages for a whole day and all that industrial era foolishness, which would actually be pretty valuable if we ever get sent back thru a one or two century time warp. We have the best 1850 education system money can buy; of course its useless in 2010s but whatever. At least for boys, if you grassroots up from first principles and implement what works pragmatically, rather than what we've always done or whats in the union contract, you end up with something like cub scouts or boy scouts. Given the wildly divergent goals of school and scouts, where school exists to perpetuate and expand the bureaucracy and scouts exists because organized screwing around provides more learning opportunities than disorganized screwing around, they will continue to diverge until they're unrecognizable. But at least in theory boys learn at both organizations. Much more at boy scouts than at school of course, but they are kinda similar. There exist merit badges in boy scouting for semi-academic topics like electricity or programming. The time investment has to be limited but its intellectually interesting to imagine that someday the only way to teach a boy geometry would be a boy scout geometry merit badge. Unimaginable amounts of time and money will be spent in schools on a line item named "geometry" but the legacy school system does not have any goal of teaching boys geometry so ironically thats the one thing boys will definitely not learn in geometry class, they'll have to go to scouts to learn. I have no personal experience with girl scouts because of their "no male leadership" rule, which is about as appropriate as the now removed "no gay leadership" rule in boy scouts; My lack of praising girl scouts is due to a lack of girl scout experience not implying its bad or wrong. Its possible, even likely, girl scouts is just as good for girls. I do find the ratio bizarre where per capita girl scouting is around ten times less popular than boy scouts, that might indicate a problem in girl scouting.