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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well teacher, you will not need to give our child a zero because we send them to an school where they don't assign meaningless drivel. Further, there is no homework in the early years.  [/quote]

But when will you stop wiping their ass?  What if their college professor assigns them "meaningless drivel?"  What then?[/quote]

In college and grad school (and life in general) figuring out what to do and what to skip is actually an essential skill. Blind rule following is not the path to success.[/quote]

I am giggling about the idea of telling my college professor, or my boss, "I didn't do the work you assigned me because it was meaningless drivel."[/quote]

Lol apparently you can just say my mom says it's ok for me not to do it and expect to keep your job. [/quote]

But every good job these days requires being smart about how you do the job - very few involve a list of tasks with no discretion about how to do them. And often you do have to prioritize and leave some tasks behind. Blind obedience teaches none of those skills.[/quote]

The problem with this approach is that I doubt you're fully educated yourself as to why an assignment is being given, and what the teacher is hoping your accomplish. You're assuming it's not useful when you're not in the best position to make that determination. Yes, in their careers out kids will need to be able to use their judgment about what is important and what isn't, but they will need to have sufficient knowledge and experience to make that judgment first. If they start doing that on their own on day one out of college, they'll probably end up fired because they don't know enough yet to make good judgments.[/quote]

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