Kids just want to experience all the natural disasters outside. No time for school right now.
I don’t blame them. FOMO of having your house destroyed in a hurricane or wildfire is big.
They started treating schools like prisons after columbine. Taking away bookbags. Treating students like criminals. Having rent-a-cop harass kids. Not to mention shooter training and underpaid teachers. And also this war on woke BS with book bans and continual changes to the educational material so kids are learning about atrocities from one source while their history book glosses over it.
So yeah schools aren’t in a good place right now.
You know why? Uneducated people are easier to control and influence
There’s a new rule at my daughter’s middle school this year that children are not allowed to go to extracurricular activities (aside from sports for some reason) unless accompanied by a parent. What the fuck?
Kids figured out that school is just older baby daycare, and that college is a life debt trap, so they’re choosing another option
Do tell us how that other option of not even going to grade school is going to work out for them in the future when they want to do things like move out of their parents’ house.
I’m not talking about college, just normal grade school. Because without a HS diploma, good luck getting much more than a minimum wage job.
I wish I had that wisdom at their age.
TBH schools aren’t exactly the safest places for students to be anymore.
Index the amounts against per student spending
As a subscriber of antischool and a promoter of self-guided learning, I’m for people freeing themselves from school so long as they’re not hurting anybody to do it.
This is some libertarian ‘pull themselves up by their bootstraps’ bullshit that I also never hear from anyone who actually has a child. Children do not have fully-developed brains. That alone should be enough to realize that they can’t be trusted to teach themselves things properly. They need guidance.
Also, letting a six-year-old decide for themselves whether or not they want to learn to read and know what 1+1 equals is just fucking stupid.
On one hand, yeah, but on the other, to really achieve, you must stand on the shoulders of giants. Else, you will be reinventing the wheel, sometimes literally. One of our great advantages as a species is language, allowing us to communicate complex concepts.
They’re hurting people by being tomorrow’s idiots ruining the world.
There, that encompasses all of them, now you’re pro school, right?
I do think when people eventually decide what they want to do, they will apply themselves and learn. Kids (correctly) believe school is wasting their time. If we offered vocational training instead, I think it would be a win-win.
