Comment on Some parents push their kids hard.
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
on the other hand I sometimes feel kids don't achieve nearly what they're capable of and maybe parents don't enable them to achieve more at younger ages
but I am concerned this may be a race to the bottom and kids will be forced to become really skilled at younger ages which could be stressful
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
One reason why I'm really strongly considering homeschooling. I know full well my son is going to be smart, it seems like a waste to drag him into the public school system that will teach him how to eat sleep live and die by the bell
squashkin@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
yeah as you know the modern school system has roots in being designed to create factory workers
I think maybe a homeschool co-op or "freer private school" system might be ideal. Then kids can socialize maybe but also have a lot more freedom to not have to worry about the bell, get things done quickly, and whatever.
In my own personal life looking back, whether I had conventional school or not might not have mattered as much, I just wasn't taught certain skills I could have been taught at much younger ages, or allowed or encouraged to develop more professional skills. It feels like I learned way too much on my own that I would have never ended up learning otherwise.
There's all this paranoia about "child labor" today. I almost expect there to be more teens laboring in the future and think that could be a good thing. At 18 you should be able to be independent. How can you do that unless you're spending the previous however many years doing work that you could support yourself with? Or else jobs need simplification and to have better pay so that unskilled teens could move towards jobs to be able to support themselves as young adults.
idk there's no one size fits all, depends on what you think your child wants to or is capable of achieving
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
I tend to agree with you, the most important skills that I ever learned I had to actively push against the schools to learn. When I was learning computer programming, which isn't a core skill to my job but is very important, nobody teaching at the schools we're going to be able to help me. They didn't have the information, they didn't know anything about the information, they didn't care about the information. And I'm not just talking about the computer stuff, I'm talking about the math stuff.
Information on vectors for example, which you would think a professional math teacher would know, I had to basically go out there and do the research myself and thankfully I lived in the age of the internet so it was there.
That's one of the things, if I'm the one responsible for teaching my son, and he wants to know a thing, I am more than happy to go out and do the work and try to find the answer to his question. Contrast that if my son is one of a thousand kids for that teacher is going to teach, of course the teacher isn't going to put that much effort into it.