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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, the number of posters on here defending why school is terrible and kids should hate it... tells you why kids hate school now and didn't used to.  Kids probably would have hated school in ye olde days if their parents gave them license to talk about it.  But it just wasn't an option. Now, parents complain non-stop about school (rightly so, imho) so no wonder that their kids share the same views. WHen i was a kid, no parent even thought to hate school. So neither did we.

A couple people above complained about school not being creative enough..... do you think it was MORE creative in the 1950s?  [/quote]

I do think schools were more creative.  I went to school in the 70s, not the 50s.  But I remember writing plays and acting them out.  I remember school assemblies with interesting presenters.  I remember lots of playground time and being able just to hang out with my friends during recess.

I also remember being challenged by my teachers and them pushing me for more.  I remember relationships with teachers and not wanting to disappoint them.  There was tracking and everyone worked at the level that was appropriate for them.  I didn’t have to teach my classmates material.  There also were no behavior issues in the classroom.  Lastly I remember being scared of being sent to the principals office because he wouldn’t call home and then I would be in real trouble.

As a society, we are much more tolerant of disrespect from children.  We treat children as peers and they behave as entitled people.  My teachers never had an issue controlling the classroom because the children in the class did not act out.

We’ve discussed this on other threads—the SN kids existed in the 70s but if they were constantly disruptive they were moved to a different environment.  There was more time for teachers to explore topics that interested the class.  They didn’t have to focus on making sure that everyone in the class could pass a standardized test.[/quote]

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