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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]^ This conversation and that article are precisely why people think schools are becoming little more than a glorified daycare, and why people are so frustrated with our school system.

There are obviously some in education who just care about kids showing up each day, and having it be "fun" and be damned if they actually should LEARN anything. These exchanges only serve to keep reinforcing that dismal opinion of our educational system.[/quote]

You are a very "black and white" thinker.  Education can be fun you know.  Children can actually have fun and learn at the same time.  Imagine that.  I guess that never happened for you.  [/quote]

Seems to me the author of that article and the folks saying "OMG, asking a kid about WHY in a book destroys all fun" are the ones thinking in black and white.  After all, they've already come to the foregone conclusion that reading has been forever ruined because the teacher asked a kid a question.  Once you so much as tap something with the Common Core wand, it is automatically destroyed henceforth and forever until the end of time.  That's what they keep telling us over and over and over and over.  So don't presume to tell me about "black and white thinking."  Pffffft![/quote]

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