[barry-cotter]

It takes fifty contact hours to teach the average nine year old to read. I can't recall how long basic arithmetic takes but it's unlikely to take more than ten times that. 550/40 would be very, very approximately one school year. We just covered basic numeracy and literacy. Now we can talk about how all modern school systems are descended from ones designed to produce soldiers. [ htt//www.nber.org/papers/w18049 ]

If we must have a place to park children if we want their parents to work why can't it be like Summerhill, and not somewhere children are made to sit still, be quiet, do as you're told, stop doing it when I say stop? [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School ]

If school is about education why does it start two to four hours too early for adolescents to learn at their best and why do they get homework in all subjects when the only subjects that show positive effects from homework wre math and cognate subjects?