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I'm not disagreeing with you, schools can be great places to learn. I envy your experience. My school sucked, catering to the slowest students and bullying the
by skylurk 1y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, schools can be great places to learn. I envy your experience.
My school sucked, catering to the slowest students and bullying the self-motivated ones. The general view of the administration was that the whole universe was only a few thousand years old and was unlikely to last much longer.
I got a decent education, in spite of my school, thanks to my parents working hard to fill the gaps. Obviously the list above is not exhaustive, and it adapted as I got older.
So it was true for me then, and probably even more true in 2025, that the parents have full responsibility for the education of the student. Picking a school like yours would be a great first step, if that's an option.
- 1718627440 1y agoI don't see how this has to do with the quality of the school. This should also apply to a bad school. What have you done in past class 2? I can't imagine a school existing on earth that still teaches 16 year old students how to write.
- skylurk 1y agoNo writing class at 16 of course, although all assignments were still required to be submitted in cursive until around then, with points quickly docked for spelling and tidiness lapses. But the curriculum was years behind, so by the time something showed up in the school material, a lot of kids had already learned it. Either outside of school, or just the previous year... the material always seemed recycled from year to year, just with ever increasing page count requirements for assignments. It was a private school, and thereby avoided scrutiny. Come to think of it, I actually do remember a lot of rote memorisation of religious texts, though. Not sure how I forgot about it, it was a pretty stressful subject. We had to write those from memory in cursive too.