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My kid wants to go back to school. He tells me most weeks that he misses it. He is currently doing all the work he would be doing but on our kitchen counter wi
by bratbag 6y ago
My kid wants to go back to school. He tells me most weeks that he misses it.
He is currently doing all the work he would be doing but on our kitchen counter with his mother or I. He gets all the hard bits of school without the fun bits.
Perhaps the writer of the article should try asking the people he is talking about?
- blue_box 6y agoDid you ask your kid if he misses because of the school itself or because he wants to see his friends?
- marianov 6y agoI asked mine. School sucks, friends not. And it's too long. We switched to 2 hours work, outside activities and you can meet with as many friends as you want. I'll tell you te outcome in one year, but TBH they see it as the same as last year, plus the outside activity and without the dreaded Google Hangouts classes, which were frustrating. They got to grades last year and we have the time to devote to home schooling
- threatofrain 6y agoThe author's very point is that the fun bits of school is just social time — and that school is many things, including learning, and that the learning time often sucks the joy out of learning for too many kids. Presumably the author believes it's possible to structure more fun outside of school if the community were into it. It's too bad nobody is really on that discussion atm. As a tangent, here is a photo of a German kindergarten. https://i.redd.it/l9ghxqjqhdh61.jpg https://i.redd.it/l9ghxqjqhdh61.jpg