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   Do I contact my school board member? Do I write to the department of education? Do I start a petition? I feel like parents and teachers have been banging their heads against the wall for years and it just gets worse. How do we get things to change? I don't want my children to spend their childhood this way.

How many articles do we have to read about how superior Finland's educational system is the US before we make some bold changes? In Finland they don't start formal education until 7. They rarely take tests or have homework until they are in their teens. They get an average of 75 minutes A DAY of recess in elementary school. My kids get 20. Somehow youngsters from Finland end up out performing our kids across the board academically. Maybe it's because they actually have time to enjoy the learning process and they get enough playtime that their minds are ready to focus in the classroom. Why, in the US, do we think it is essential to give young children so much homework and so many quizzes and tests and so little recess? The system is broken. Time to start over. I know most parents and teachers agree. I know there have been endless editorials and articles. What will it take? Do we need to have a march on Washington? [/quote]

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