Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying?
jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 hours agoBut 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.