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When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process.
Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school.
Some of the biggest habits kids need to unlearn:
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- This is an 8th grade graduation exam from 1912. 8th graders then were better prepared for life in the real world than 12th graders are today.
- Most kids go through 12+ years of school without learning how to think. They learn math and grammar, but they never learn critical thinking. 5 skills you need to be teaching your kids (and let's be honest, most adults need to learn them too) 👇
- Wait, so let me get this straight: Kids are *legally required* spend 7 hours in school, 180 days a year, for 13 years ... ... and yet 54% of American adults can't even read at a 6th grade level? Please make this make sense.
- Wait, so let me get this straight: Kids are *legally required* spend 7 hours in school, 180 days a year, for 13 years ... ... and yet 54% of American adults can't even read at a 6th grade level? Please make this make sense.
- Wait, so let me get this straight: Kids are *legally required* spend 7 hours in school, 180 days a year, for 13 years ... ... and yet 54% of American adults can't even read at a 6th grade level? Please make this make sense.
- There are schools in America where not a single student can read or do math at grade level. Read that again: not a single student. In the whole school.
- Why are we wasting 12+ years of kids’ lives on busywork that doesn’t matter, memorizing topics they don’t care about, trapped inside a system they hate? There’s a better way.
- Effective schooling can be done in only a couple hours a day. Most of the contents of a traditional school day are unnecessary bloat. Nobody questions the bloat, because school is also childcare. Which requires 7-8 hours a day of kids looking busy.
- Schools don’t have a funding problem, they have an administrator surplus problem.
- When kids leave traditional school, they have to go through a deschooling process. Deschooling = unlearning all the bad habits you picked up in school. Some of the biggest habits kids need to unlearn:
