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jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 hours agoWe don’t only learn in school. Fuck, I didn’t even go to school. Children’s lives are entirely different than they were when I was a child, it’s a holistic issue.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 9 hours ago
Yeah, you’re right, kids should have educational experiences outside of school. But the problems of capitalism, which are very pronounced in America, are ruining that. Households now need to work 80 hours a week instead of 40, so children aren’t being looked after by their house-working parent. There is no house-working parent anymore. Children used to go outside to play, but the dangers of car pollution and car crashes have made outside inhospitable. So children are now more dependent than ever on school to teach them.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
But that’s never what school was for. Genuinely. We’re gradually trying to retcon it into that, but a classroom is simply not how you take a chaotic toddler and produce a teenager who’s engaged in the world and desires to learn about it.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 9 hours ago
I’d rather do a bad job of retconning a classroom into a place to teach political and media literacy, than have no such place in these children’s lives.