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I was a kid who coasted through school and got by on smarts alone. I don't care how we push kids, we just need to not let them coast too long. If that means enr
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
I was a kid who coasted through school and got by on smarts alone. I don't care how we push kids, we just need to not let them coast too long. If that means enrichment or acceleration or whatever else the comments are debating, it's pretty much all better than the status quo.
- convolvatron 5y agoI was too. all the AP classes. a grade ahead. and then I got to college and I had no idea how to actually study and learn real things
- chasd00 5y agoi went to a small HS out in the backwoods of North Texas ( graduating class had 20 people in it). I was told how smart i was over and over and started to believe it. Then went to college and found out exactly how much BS was fed to me the previous 4 years. I really suffered for it taking a long time to graduate and almost getting kicked out a couple times. Now I have two kids and prioritize learning how to learn with them. If you can develop the skills in a child required to work hard, find the answers, find the understanding, and teach themself then you've put them in a good spot to have at least a fighting chance when faced with the unknown.
- tastyfreeze 5y agoPublic school was the same for me. It wasn't until doing poorly in college that I realized that I actually needed to study to do well. Unfortunately, I had never developed study habits as I hardly had to crack a book to do well before. It was quite a struggle for me to teach myself how to learn when I couldn't just pick up the material from class. To me that illustrates the general failure of public school is not teaching children how to learn.