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by JackMorgan 1170 days ago
Let's be real, school is 95% about day care and training kids to be obedient worker drones. Education is tertiary at best, but talked about the most to help the parents and teachers feel good about the situation. I'm a state licensed middle school teacher who's taught 5th and 6th grade before walking away.

Modern educational curriculums have very little content for: critical thinking, logic, creativity, self-teaching, responsibility, civic responsibility, curiosity, compassion, self respect, and finding purpose. Instead of teaching how to use history to prevent making the same mistakes we make them memorize dates. Instead of teaching them to use writing as an emotional regulator and self therapy we teach them to read a paragraph quickly to answer a multiple choice question about it. Since standardized tests are easiest and cheapest to grade through a scantron, state tests emphasize facts and memorization.

The entire lecture and classroom school system 99% of us know teaches dependence over independence and blind obedience over critical thinking.

Sports are taught through a hyper-competitive lens, getting them ready for a possible professional sports career.

See the famous New York state teacher of the year John Gatto for more https://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html