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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it’s hilarious to me that someone could look at problems in school and instead of looking at what the *school* is doing, blame parents! The problem with child behavior in school is due to the school system’s increasing refusal to focus on, you know, teaching kids content. Instead of books, tests, homework, and ambitious expectations, we have group work, endless focus on “concepts”, homework eliminated as “inequitable.” Even putting kids in tables together instead of desks in rows.

My kid had an absolutely fabulous Kindergarten teacher who knew how to keep kids in line and also focused on content (phonics and basic math skills). That was the best year in school he had. Every year since has been worse as teachers seem to be focused on teaching to an imaginary ideal as opposed to actually teaching kids content. [/quote]
oh, if only the school system would teach kids. That will make all kids behave.

:lol:

-not a teacher[/quote]

If the school system focused on the structure of teaching and learning, yet it would help. Instead the system is increasingly full of poorly trained teachers who believe their job is teaching kids “how to think” and “how to be activists” (with of course the former cabined by the latter). [/quote]
Teaching kids to be open minded is not indoctrination.  Also, we do need activists. That's how change is made. How do you think the civil rights came to be?  Or do you think colored people should've stayed in their place and not made such a huge stink and just learned the 5 Rs in school via rote memorization.
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DP.  Activists are not "made" in school.  In school, they learn the 3 Rs and they found their inspiration where they found it.  It wasn't taught to them.

Is your post for real?  If so, please think more deeply about what school is for, what an education is for, and why and how people are activists and make changes.  [/quote]

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