that much i do know, the public school system was built to get people ready for the factory work.

I'm actually arguing for a separation of genders in schools.

I would just start with separation of learning styles.

Yeah and learning speed

Bespoke education

My niece goes to a school where the classes overlap, depending on the learning speed of the children.

totaly, stop gradeing kids based on their age and start dealing with the fact that some kids just don't learn as fast.

It's absolutely awesome, the children get to skip ahead or lag behind basically at will.

Exactly as their interests desire and their skills allow.

yup yup

and again, get the kids some shop clases!

let them build and fix things!

Sounds like a good system, good for your niece

It's brilliant, I'm so happy to see how she's being raised

I hope that generation of kids will bring change

My nephews 3, and I'm worried about his education

Do you live in a big city?

Because blue state

Middling city

Couple hundred thousand

"middling" lol

For me that's a lot 😄

For America, fairly small

i'm worried about my 8 year old cousin, smart little kid, everyone says he is just like i was at that age.
I'm worried that school will crush him.
he is loud and can't for the life of him hold still, I can't imagine teachers will like him much but he is also smart and learns fast.

Damn

They designed schools so as to disadvantage loud kids the most

my mom and his mom think he will be fine, but i'm not as sure.

@ARockRaider if he likes reading, definitely get him hooked on Pratchett, great source of common Sense

haha ya

ok god, if i tried to get him to read politial books (or ones with a political tilt) my mom would kill me.

1984 it is then

Try "wee free men" and the other Tiffany aching books

They're made for kids his age

I will try and keep them in mind, but I don't think i will even try.

Then he'll be asking to read the vimes books on his own

Don't give him 1984, he'll prolly hate it at that age 😄

that and the tech in 1984 is stright up vintage now.

"oh the screens can see you, and they are how large?"

haha hmmm ya

I listened to that one while i was driveing, the 5min hate or whatever stright up freaked me out.

But children are very good at grasping concepts