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>They're going to be tracking all these kids who are going to miss months of school as a big "natural experiment". Honestly I don't know why that would be an i
by carlmr 7y ago
>They're going to be tracking all these kids who are going to miss months of school as a big "natural experiment".
Honestly I don't know why that would be an issue. Say you go to school for 12 years and you miss 3 months because of this. That's 2% of the total time of going to school. I doubt you will have a measurable impact in performance later in life.
Hell, I slept through most of grades 7-9. I was a teenager, always sleepy and unmotivated. Then I started catching up in grade 10 and graduated at least in the top 5% of my class.
Also you can learn so much outside school, it might even be beneficial to have your parents at home, like it used to be pre-industrialization.
- lordnacho 7y agoWell if that's what the experiment shows, that people don't need to go to school all the time for 13 years, that's useful in decision making as well. There's no arguing that observing this will be useful to science though. I thought the same about middle school. Total waste of time, I could have done high school right after primary school, which actually was useful.