First sentence in this video "Race to Nowhere Roundtable Discussion at Stanford Dec 2, 2010" is quoted in the title of this blog post.
School as "test factory".
Students are not "learning or retaining".
Let's think about "how to have kids thrive instead of achieving success".
How about the student in the audience who is starting to cry and what she says about what the schools value?
And the mother of a fifth grader that has three hours of homework who says this comes down to civil disobedience if they refuse to do the homework or have all their kids show up an hour late for school!
As homeschoolers we can escape all of this craziness if we allow ourselves to truly learn outside of the box.
I wonder if a high achieving academically rigorous alternative education magnet school in an area of a student's passion falls prey to this same thing?
For this academic year we are staying with homeschooling.
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They talk a lot about how things need to change, but there is no mechanism in place to accomplish that in any reasonable length of time. I'll keep homeschooling, despite the folks who get on my case about taking the salt out, and/or my supposed "duty" to fix the system myself (WHAT duty? My DUTY is to my own children first. I'm not sacrificing them on the altar of parents who don't care enough about their own.)
Thanks for posting that, Christine. Today has been a tough homeschool day for me and I needed to be reminded why I do this...
Xa Lynn
I completely agree with you. Sometimes, depression develops in children because of all the unnecessary pressure they sometimes receive from school! Sometimes, symptoms of depression in children begin in preschool years and should not be ignored. Education is important, but pressuring children to achieve so much at such a young age is so unhealthy.
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I completely agree with you. Sometimes, depression develops in children because of all the unnecessary pressure they sometimes receive from school! Sometimes, symptoms of depression in children begin in preschool years and should not be ignored. Education is important, but pressuring children to achieve so much at such a young age is so unhealthy.
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I completely agree with you. Sometimes, depression develops in children because of all the unnecessary pressure they sometimes receive from school! Sometimes, symptoms of depression in children begin in preschool years and should not be ignored. Education is important, but pressuring children to achieve so much at such a young age is so unhealthy.
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