Schools are a hot topic these days where I am (Quebec) as we're going into the fifth week of schools being closed in our area because of strikes. Someone I was

Schools are a hot topic these days where I am (Quebec) as we're going into the fifth week of schools being closed in our area because of strikes. Someone I was talking to the other day wondered how the schools would catch up this huge loss of time, and we got to talking about what it is that schools actually teach, and how much of it is relevant. Maybe someone in our school system will ask the same question: for these kids, who will be growing up during arguably one of the most challenging periods in humanity (dealing with the terrible condition of the world their previous generations have left them), what can we teach them now that will be most relevant during their lives? Maybe it's ok if they don't remember that Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia, or maybe they can calculate less lengths of hypotenuses. Instead maybe scrap a big part of this old curriculum, and teach them to think creatively, and work on their awareness of things like environmental challenges, right wing populism.