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I've never regretted my education and only wanted more. > response to concerns about children’s mental health and a shortage of teachers. Ha! Getting educated
by seeknotfind 2y ago
I've never regretted my education and only wanted more.
> response to concerns about children’s mental health and a shortage of teachers.
Ha! Getting educated is so bad for children, and how insufferable an extra day among their peers must be! Disgusting!
- karmakurtisaani 2y agoI think the teacher shortage is the true reason.
- MattPalmer1086 2y agoNo kidding. My sister teaches at one of the best schools in London and they haven't been able to find perm teachers for such odd subjects as maths and physics for over a year.
- kjellsbells 2y agoYes. And I suppose "school cuts service 20%" or "school raises tuition by 25%" are not such pleasant headlines to read, despite being equivalent...
- throw5959 2y agoYes, being imprisoned with a large group of children was extremely painful to some of us.
- seeknotfind 2y agoIt was painful.
- throw5959 2y agoAnd we don't want to subject our children to that torture.
- seeknotfind 2y agoHow else to solve childcare and socialization?
- throw5959 2y agoMostly by doing the exact opposite of what the school system is today. Informal, friendly groups of mixed ages, no subjects or lessons, no exams, no marks. Not a theory, this works today.
- musicale 2y agoThe irony of learning about things like democracy and the bill of rights in an authoritarian school that suspended basic rights was not lost on me – and schools seem to be even more restrictive now. But I have few complaints about kindergarten and undergraduate university education.
- CapeTheory 2y agoEducation comes in many forms. School taught me about long division and the battle of Hastings, but weekends away with my family taught me about societal norms. We hear lots of complaints these days about how mal-adjusted so many children are, but is there any wonder? They are whisked from after school clubs to private sports activities, then off to bed (or homework) once their mandatory activities are done. Some of this is because parents are terrified of being considered neglectful by under-stimulating their child - but then children never learn to just exist in the presence of events which are more important than themselves.