The Failure Of Schools To Educate - Article

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I'm not going to get het up about what this guy is talking about. It's never going to be implemented, let alone strictly so that our kids never learn about other things we have come to deem as important at school.
I am one who does think schooling places far too much emphasis on passing/failing, and that can erode the importance of imparting understanding of those principles being taught. Students learn to 'work' the system to pass and even to pass well, to get into uni to courses that others have placed high value on because they attract prestige.
Now I'm being cynical The most important thing I want DS to take away from school is that learning can be enjoyable, especially when pursuing things of interest. I couldn't give a stuff if he 'fails' geometry at school, if in the process he found it interesting, just not relevant to his primary interests.
Not surprisingly, I'm exploring various educational options for DS outside of mainstream school, because I have a feeling he may not 'fit in' to mainstream methods. Maybe he will, and we have a few years yet to see what would suit him.
I like what this dissertation makes me think about, though, so thanks, Chloe
ETA:
I also believe that there are parents who are woefully inadequately equipped to teach the things this guy talks about...of COURSE there are. So, what do we do? Leave those kids to learn physics and art history and keep the cycle of real life ignorance going? Like this guy says, these kinds of kids model from parents who modelled off their parents and the loss of our 'village' means that it will continue to happen unless the artificial village takes measures to compensate. And it's not just isolated cases...I know there are plenty of families in my area alone that have no idea how to teach real life things like sex and intimacy to their kids (for example). It's a collective cop out to place all responsibility back onto the parents when those same parents have no idea how to impart these important life skills.