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We would like your thoughts on these 4 questions:
-What is the value of a high school degree if a person is not going to pursue higher education?
-Considering that kids spend around 11,000 hours of their youth between the ages of k-12 remanded to school, why doesn't school feel obligated to make the experience fun?
-What are the stated goals of school whereas not reaching them would be considered a failure?
-Gym class, health class, after school sports etc. indicate that school believes health is an issue they should be involved in, why does it appear that subjects like math and science are more important than our health?
__________________________________ "The idea is to align the skills taught in school to match the skills needed to create successful and happy adults" _______________________
-READ 6 COMMANDMENTS OF A BETTER SCHOOL HERE-
School dictates society. Most of us mistakenly believe it only affects us into our late teens or early twenties, but really we have a lifetime relationship with it. After we are done participating, our income potential, friend group, where we live and even the perceived value of our opinion is based on the level of school we have achieved.
Some of us will have college debt well into our fifties. Our job mobility is largely based on school. On top of this, if we have kids, we are linked again for another 20-30 years taking them to school, making sure they do their homework, helping them with college debt and generally complying with the rules set forth by the school system.
Our workplace is mostly set up as a reflection of school. We design the work week, disciplinary action and job expectations based on the school model. We believe that workers cannot accomplish much unsupervised based on the school model.
Our current school model presupposes that we will be incapable and inept if we are not controlled, directed and dependent every step of the way. We have absolutely no confidence that we can create self starting, independent, capable human beings so we attempt to control every aspect of the process including and especially independent thought and action.
Short, 30 second reads, to help explain school
Why Teachers Can't be Ultimately Successful with the Current School Curriculum
Schools need to be completely optional
The after school activity model is the perfect example of how school should be optional
The true value of a High School degree
Our feelings about home schooling are paradoxical
Is school a sacred institution or a resource
We are imposing unnecessary drudgery on ourselves
Our best society in our most independent society
The relevance of subjects we've studied for years
In school, the first department we should get rid of is custodial because, from the very first day, it teaches children that someone will always be there to clean up their mess.
In school, we are taught about biology, trigonometry and sociology but most of us will never knowingly use this information even once and, at the same time, we have not one substantive class on how to develop and maintain meaningful relationships, information we desperately need to have.
In school, we have created a system much like a prison setting where children have little freedom, choice or fun while being directed every moment they are there even though they have done nothing wrong.
In school, we are teaching our kids that questioning or being skeptical about the worth of information being taught is a bad thing and something to be admonished.
In school, our children are being encouraged to allow teachers to make choices about what is right for the children and discourage any form of dissent as being disrespectful.
In school, our children are punished for failing subjects like biology and geometry by taking away after school sports essentially teaching them that activity and health are secondary to subjects most of us will never use.
In school, our kids are not being encouraged to figure out right and wrong on their own which encourages dependence on other people's points of view.
In school, we have decided that teaching kids about self reliance, manners, health and income making are the responsibility of the parent so the job seldom gets done even though it is the heart of what makes a well functioning society.
In school, we have taught society that k-12 is essentially to warm the kids up for even more school and nothing else.
In school, we have taught society that being an employee and not an entrepreneur is the only way to go which means every person has to wait around for a job offer to make a living instead of proactively going after their dreams.
In school, we are taught that our societal value is very much tied to the level of education we have achieved.
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