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Why do we send kids to school in the winter & fall months, when their days are already short and getting shorter all the time? Then they’re off, doing nothing at all for 10 weeks (not twelve, is as commonly thought) when the days are longest?
The only acceptable answer is that it is what is best for learning. That is, if learning is what schools are for.
If schools are for parenting, dietary management, public safety, sex ed, driver’s ed, football, lifelong memories, values, morals AND learning, that changes the equation significantly.
If schools are about learning only when learning doesn’t confict with the culture war, get in anyone’s political path, or become too expensive, then the equation is even more drastically changed.
If they are about all of those things plus learning, but we’re going to keep saying they’re about learning, schools are a farce.
But learning still rocks.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Mr. Chase // Oct 17, 2007 at 12:51 am
This is a thought that’s been in my head for a while. You, sir, have inspired a blog post.
2 So What Is The Purpose of Schools? : Hear ItFrom.Us // Oct 17, 2007 at 12:49 pm
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3 Taylor // Oct 18, 2007 at 12:34 am
Thanks! I want to hear what more people have to say about this. Because I think it’s important. Our central work right now.
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