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> Teach kids more, not less It's an odd combination of teaching kids too much in elementary school and too little in high. The children are exposed to a far m
by BeFlatXIII 3y ago
> Teach kids more, not less
It's an odd combination of teaching kids too much in elementary school and too little in high. The children are exposed to a far more comprehensive curriculum at the expense of never practicing the skills enough to master them. As soon as summer resets their brains, they suddenly have large gaps in knowledge that slow next year's learning.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> As soon as summer resets their brains, they suddenly have large gaps in knowledge that slow next year's learning. One loves to say that summer vacations are long so that pupils have time to fill the gaps for the next school year. If they don't use this time (or their parents don't urge them to), it is their problem.
- sfn42 3y agoNobody's spending their vacation studying if they can avoid it.
- aleph_minus_one 3y ago> Nobody's spending their vacation studying if they can avoid it. If you have huge gaps in the subject matter of some subjects, you hardly cannot avoid it (and your parents will likely take care that you cannot avoid it ;-) ).
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>if they can avoid it. meanwhile, my parent put me in summer school almost every year in some capacity. At least summer hours and classes are relaxed compared to the gauntlet of 6-7 different subjects 8 hours a day.
- sfn42 3y agoSeems like you couldn't avoid it.