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Public school is overrated. I would choose Khan Academy, the South Korean model, or Charter schools over public schools any day of the week.
by Day1 5y ago
Public school is overrated. I would choose Khan Academy, the South Korean model, or Charter schools over public schools any day of the week.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoExcept charters these don't scale down to kindergarten or lower elementary grades
- Day1 5y agoThat’s true. If public schools only focused on lower grade levels that would free up resources tremendously.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoWhat about the charter schools that teach the Earth is 6000 years old? https://ncse.ngo/creationism-texas-charter-schools https://ncse.ngo/creationism-texas-charter-schools They should accurately teach subjects such as science.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoYou're confusing the US's requirement for religious freedom with the education model. It's not like you're forced to pick a school that teaches things you don't agree with. For every one of these schools teaching kids religious nonsense that is clearly wrong, there is some other school using that freedom to try alternative ways of running classroom. If you don't allow this you end up with a pretty rigid system that basically everyone but educational board members hates, like the Common Core requirements that are so tight that teachers basically have to design their entire quarter around them.
- pixl97 5y agoAh, I love the choose your own story model of education l.
- blisterpeanuts 5y agoIf they receive public money, they may not introduce religious concepts into science courses. A chain of charters in Texas does indeed seem to be working around the ban on religious doctrine, a ban tested in court, by using tricky language e.g. "Evolution is one theory; there are competing theories." However sooner or later they'll probably be taken to court and lose. Probably nationwide, 99% of charter schools are secular and do indeed teach proper broadly accepted science and other subjects.
- ericd 5y agoYeah, there’s a real problem with people generalizing from sensational news about isolated incidents. It seems to be creating really distorted mental world models.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoIt's been an ongoing fight in Texas for a few decades. This is a major issue since Texas buys so many school books they tend to drive the market but this is lessening a bit. https://relevantmagazine.com/current/texas-board-education-debates-creationism-and-evolution-textbooks/ https://relevantmagazine.com/current/texas-board-education-d... This is one example. There are lots more.
- unmole 5y agoDon't send you kids to such schools?
- colinmhayes 5y agoThe point of elementary school is to teach kids how to socialize appropriately. Khan academy/MOOCs fail utterly.
- Day1 5y agoI agree. But go beyond elementary school and you’ve completely lost me.