I spent my entire school career afraid of being wrong because I was taught that to make a mistake was embarrassing. Now I’ve discovered that making a mistake just means you are one step closer to the right answer, and everyday I have to work to shake the mindset that a single wrong answer equals failure.
If your in school and reading this, refuse to go to school. Or if they force you, do a sort down strike. Refuse to go to classes. Get your friends to do the same. WEAR A FUCKING MASK.
They are killing you, your friends, their families, your teachers and thousands of random people who you will end up infecting. They are sending you back knowing that you will get sick and die or get other people killed. Dont let them. Your life isnt worth it.
It’s strange that were told to take advantage of public school because it’s free and that we should take advantage of all the opportunities of college because we’re paying money for it. It’s strange because like it just seems like something that can’t go both ways
Like writing is taught in elementary school because it will be needed in middle school because it will be needed in high school because it will be needed in college and it might be needed later in life…
But like, if we do need it, I feel we could learn it then?
Writing is important, sure, but does everyone need to know how to write an academic essay for their life?
And that gets into knowledge in general. If you don’t go to a traditional school, you may be lacking knowledge about certain things, but doesn’t a social worker generally lack the knowledge of a physicist?
Not everyone knows the same things. This is just a fact.
School should be more about giving people the opportunity to learn things than forcing them to learn things that don’t really matter, I guess.
You know, this isn’t a new take, but shows like “are you smarter than a 5th grade” really show the issues with education, lol.
It’s like Jeopardy. Sure, if you watch it, you may feel kinda dumb or at least somewhat inferior at times, but it’s all kinda unnecessary to daily life.
The fact is, we’re all pressured to learn stuff that we don’t really need to know. We need to know a lot because we’re expected to know it later, but really our end goal could be reached without knowing whatever it was in the first place.
You know, the fact that kids forget what they’re taught in school very quickly because it isn’t really relevant to them makes perfect sense.
I mean, obviously, humans forget stuff over time, and if you barely cared (or didn’t care at all) in the first place, it makes it even harder to remember.
But in my experience I forget things when they’re no longer useful to me, even if I learned them by choice.
For example I used to spend a lot of time on a forum where you could use HTML to do things, so I learned what I need to about HTML to do that. And I still retain some of the basic principles, but I couldn’t do the exact same thing now without relearning it.
There’s no real point to this, except that maybe even information we learn because we want to can still be forgotten. And I think that’s fine.
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How do you get an education like one at Sudbury Valley School and not see the hypocrisy in something like ABA?
How do you deal with the cognitive dissonance between “kids should do what they want” and “not autistic kids, actually”
I mean, fuck that?
The overlap between the “expecting 5 year olds to sit at a desk all day is ridiculous” crowd and the “ADHD is a hoax to sell meds” crowd is really kinda.. disappointing honestly. Because like, we can have both ADHD being legitimate AND not treating children like adults (in that sense, anyway).
Just, like, I’d love some nuance, please.
So I Somehow got into reading a whole ton about unschooling and ended up reading most of the Sudbury Valley School website because some Q&A from some parent mentioned it in what seemed to me to be a negative light… Whether that method of schooling has merit aside, it seems to me that if it is theanswer, then schools operating like SVS should be the goal? Because I mean, first of all, one of the things they repeatedly emphasize on the website is how important the social aspect is to the success of this method, and secondly, not everyone can homeschool their children, lol
I mean, my opinion of the actual method aside… Seems like a school is still a fundamentally good way of doing things, if it’s done right?
Though like, I do take issue with the fact that it seems like most of these unschooling parents spend so much time justifying and otherwise explaining their decision to others when if they put even some of that energy into fixing the school system for others, that’d be better? Like if you think the regimented order and such of school is an antiquated way of teaching that society at large no longer really needs, great, I agree, but like.. maybe we should fix it?
Also I saw two clips from this documentary about how westerners are basically forcing our corrupt form of education onto other cultures at the expense of said cultures, which like, there’s a place for that argument definitely, but I take issue with it because I feel it’s more nuanced than that? Like definitely yeah all cultures are equal and you can more than certainly have a fulfilling life without a formal education, but I struggle with the idea that it’s wrong for their to be schools in other countries? I can’t put words to exactly why I feel the argument is slightly off the mark, but. I guess that gets into the “documentaries don’t have to be true” thing.
But yeah, if you think police activity in schools is an issue, I think sure take your kid out, but it would be great if you could like, uh, try to help fix that issue for the rest of us?
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