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I think the evidence that school is extremely important is weak at best. For example, students who don't learn any math until 5th grade caught up to their peers

I think the evidence that school is extremely important is weak at best. For example, students who don't learn any math until 5th grade caught up to their peers by 6th grade: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/freedom-learn/201003/when-less-is-more-the-case-teaching-less-math-in-school https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/freedom-learn/2010... There have been other studies where students who had to miss large amounts of school due to a natural disaster caught up within a few years and there was no measurable difference in adulthood.

lamontcg 3y ago
One thing the pandemic taught us is that school is primarily baby-sitting for parents that work.
o0banky0o 3y ago
Maybe not "extremely" important, but autodidacticism can be terribly socially pathological, which pedagogy is meant to deal with. A lot of the point seems to be social, we want our kids to be able to navigate each others ideas with a common logic
- aaomidi 3y ago
  Then why do we put them in school where in most cases they barely get to interact in that way?
  - o0banky0o 3y ago
    What do you mean?
peteradio 3y ago
> For example, students who don't learn any math until 5th grade caught up to their peers by 6th grade: That was a study done from almost a hundred years ago, its hard to imagine its exactly applicable today.