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This has been an on-going (escalating) trend for a while; over 20 years ago the short-lived sketch show Bruiser already did a parody of it: https://www.youtube.
by arp242 3y ago
This has been an on-going (escalating) trend for a while; over 20 years ago the short-lived sketch show Bruiser already did a parody of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_dIsnDJGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_dIsnDJGk
And it pretty much matches my experience in school at the time. You could also see this with school books, where the older books were "serious" and the newer ones "fun".
I also find it rather funny that the "Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong"[1] that was mentioned in another thread is only available as a podcast, and isn't a written story (there's a transcript, but it's very hard to follow).
[1]: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
- no_wizard 3y agoI'm reading the transcripts of this, and I do find it interesting. Linear presentation of transcripts makes it hard to follow sometimes but these are good enough that I was able to follow mostly without issue. I think, to be completely honest, this right here is the summary of the problem with education in the United States: >Who thinks about that? I don’t know how to teach a child how to read, so I just assumed that the children I sent to school would come back to me literate. Cause that’s what school does, right? Parents, even well meaning ones, just not digging into what it is there kids are doing in the classrooms, not really investing in learning on a high level how the kids are learning and its effectiveness. If more parents cared about that, I think we'd have way better schools on the whole