Wasting And Doing Time In Government--And Most Other--”Schools”
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I've been utilizing it other than just as a placeholder. Not just Posting, but also exploring other accounts since censorship is way down. Cleaning up the swamp Twitter had become takes time if it is to be done right.
Rebel Educator has an excellent thread on their Twitter page, but due to Twitter's limit on the number of characters, it was split into numerous parts—the introduction followed by Comments to complete the thread.
Below is the entire thread, which makes it much easier to read. If you use Twitter, consider Following the rebelEducator account, and sign up for rebelEducator's Substack page/email list.
@rebelEducator
Rebel Educator has an excellent thread on their Twitter page, but due to Twitter's limit on the number of characters, it was split into numerous parts—the introduction followed by Comments to complete the thread.
Below is the entire thread, which makes it much easier to read. If you use Twitter, consider Following the rebelEducator account, and sign up for rebelEducator's Substack page/email list.
@rebelEducator
7:57 AM · Jan 18, 2023
The average kid spends 15,000 hours in school between the ages of 6-18.
90% of that time is utterly wasted.
Wasting kids' time means wasting their potential.
5 reasons school is wasting your kids' childhood (and why administrators don't care, and won't ever fix it)
1. School doesn't care about greatness.
School is in the business of average. Average curricula built around average standards to serve the average kid.
The goal? Mass-produced workers to keep society functioning.
Accelerating advanced kids complicates things. So they don't.
2. School is a babysitting service.
On a practical level, having somewhere for kids to go while their parents are at work trumps education.
Education can happen tomorrow. Kids *have* to go somewhere today.
This necessitates the 7-hour school day - which discourages efficiency.
3. School can't cater to individual needs.
Classrooms aren't set up for individualized attention.
It's not the teachers' fault – they just can't drop the needs of the other 30 kids in a class to serve one.
That means that when a kid is done early, they're just left waiting.
4. School self-perpetuates through good test scores.
State funding is allocated to schools based on test results.
To ensure good scores, schools end up spending the bulk of their time on test prep – which wastes the time of all the kids who have already learned the material.
5. School is built on systematization.
Systematic grades, systematic curricula, systematic progression through different courses.
School is a system, and to a system, efficiency matters more than the individual.
It doesn't *care* that it's wasting your kids' time.
Think about how much of your kids' time school is wasting.
Think about how much your kid could accomplish if they had that time free to do something else.
Your kid deserves better. If you want to help them unlock their potential, follow @rebelEducator for more.
And sign up for the rebelEducator newsletter to get ideas on improving your kids’ education, delivered straight to your inbox every Tuesday
Change the way you educate your kids.
The average kid spends 15,000 hours in school between the ages of 6-18.
90% of that time is utterly wasted.
Wasting kids' time means wasting their potential.
5 reasons school is wasting your kids' childhood (and why administrators don't care, and won't ever fix it)
1. School doesn't care about greatness.
School is in the business of average. Average curricula built around average standards to serve the average kid.
The goal? Mass-produced workers to keep society functioning.
Accelerating advanced kids complicates things. So they don't.
2. School is a babysitting service.
On a practical level, having somewhere for kids to go while their parents are at work trumps education.
Education can happen tomorrow. Kids *have* to go somewhere today.
This necessitates the 7-hour school day - which discourages efficiency.
3. School can't cater to individual needs.
Classrooms aren't set up for individualized attention.
It's not the teachers' fault – they just can't drop the needs of the other 30 kids in a class to serve one.
That means that when a kid is done early, they're just left waiting.
4. School self-perpetuates through good test scores.
State funding is allocated to schools based on test results.
To ensure good scores, schools end up spending the bulk of their time on test prep – which wastes the time of all the kids who have already learned the material.
5. School is built on systematization.
Systematic grades, systematic curricula, systematic progression through different courses.
School is a system, and to a system, efficiency matters more than the individual.
It doesn't *care* that it's wasting your kids' time.
Think about how much of your kids' time school is wasting.
Think about how much your kid could accomplish if they had that time free to do something else.
Your kid deserves better. If you want to help them unlock their potential, follow @rebelEducator for more.
And sign up for the rebelEducator newsletter to get ideas on improving your kids’ education, delivered straight to your inbox every Tuesday
Change the way you educate your kids.
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