I still don't see any data from school maximalists that schooling is anything more than signaling (beyond basic math and literacy), and that kids wouldn't be mu

I still don't see any data from school maximalists that schooling is anything more than signaling (beyond basic math and literacy), and that kids wouldn't be much happier if they could spend time on projects and pursuits they were passionate about instead. My son is 6 and in 6 months of a Minecraft obsession he's fluent in English (besides Swedish and Chinese), learning about all sorts of concepts like animal breeding, crop rotation and automating factories and farms and building all sorts of machinery. Meanwhile school is teaching one letter a week. I can guarantee that if you put kids like him together with a bunch of other kids with the same passion and let them go wild building stuff with some guidance from a technically competent adult, they would come out much more prepared for life at 18. Fine if your kid has no curiosity or internal drive to do anything, but then I question what they will get out of school anyway.