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The article leaves out the cases where the parents at home are maybe disfunctional in parenting and school is maybe really the better place for the children. Ot

The article leaves out the cases where the parents at home are maybe disfunctional in parenting and school is maybe really the better place for the children. Other than that I have the same experience, besides friends school time sucked. My English teacher told me I never will learn a foreign language since I’m interested in music (I still don’t understand this reasoning). One of my music teachers didn’t think everything outside classical music is worth studying. My physics teacher made me memorize formulas instead of understanding relationships. At university I barely remembered linear algebra from school and had to learn it again. And since I’m from Germany my Computer Science at school was optional and ended with the blink Tag and marquee in JS. I had to learn programming from books from the library which had a lot of outdated books on basic...

ignoramous 6y ago
> The article leaves out the cases where the parents at home are maybe disfunctional in parenting and school is maybe really the better place for the children. Not really. TFA does say that for some (or most?) parents, school is a babysitting service. The author says, despite that, school isn't a terribly good place for a child to be growing up either.
- tonyjstark 6y ago
  The babysitting service argument is a bit too general for me. I’m talking more about the situation where parents don’t care at all or are just not able to cope with their own life. The authors argument sounds more like lazy parents. I agree that school is not an ideal solution though.
tonyjstark 6y ago
Reading through that again: School had also a lot of nice things besides the time with friends. I really wanted to learn, every book we read I went through in 1-2 days, I read books about biology,... so in hindsight I wished we would have gotten better stimulation for the brain, less Latin and quality control for the teachers.

ignoramous 6y ago

> The article leaves out the cases where the parents at home are maybe disfunctional in parenting and school is maybe really the better place for the children. Not really. TFA does say that for some (or most?) parents, school is a babysitting service. The author says, despite that, school isn't a terribly good place for a child to be growing up either.

tonyjstark 6y ago
The babysitting service argument is a bit too general for me. I’m talking more about the situation where parents don’t care at all or are just not able to cope with their own life. The authors argument sounds more like lazy parents. I agree that school is not an ideal solution though.

tonyjstark 6y ago

Reading through that again: School had also a lot of nice things besides the time with friends. I really wanted to learn, every book we read I went through in 1-2 days, I read books about biology,... so in hindsight I wished we would have gotten better stimulation for the brain, less Latin and quality control for the teachers.