i can’t imagine the level of checked out i would be if i had to suffer through 7-12 at the traditional pace. it is almost unimaginable. like a prison type experience, maybe. this is literally the time you have maximum neurons and are pruning them, and synapses. use it or lose it
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the brain damage inflicted on young people who are forced to waste their talents on doing the exact same thing as their age peers at the same rate is unimaginable. it is maybe the costliest thing that we do to human capital. and the fact is everyone has talents & interests
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remote school *could have been* and should have been an opening up of education into a lifelong process of pursuing one’s interests, refining one’s skills, and learning about the world around you instead, zoom and ai enabled cameras monopolized your attention & gaze. even worse!
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we had a pandemic before, you know, the schooling solution was books, and outdoor classes when the weather abided. (and sweaters!) i honestly fucking weep for this generation. they have all of this technology and it is being put to use melting their brains.
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the quicker people build lifelong education into a parallel system you can seriously opt-in to in lieu of the mainline k-12-college-grad school legible education, the better. i am starting to feel like it is pretty mission critical; like education is getting profoundly bad
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a badge system wherein you are a proven badass in projects of certain categories, like earning your Jump Wings as a parachutist
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people complaining this thread is boring, Sorry! it was not intended to go viral. just thought it would be a good time to talk about something i had experienced. i am sensitive to when learning resources are shut down, but maybe things are still ok (?) in the NYC schoolsystem
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Replying to @DanielleFong
This sounds painful and I'm sorry that you had to go through it. But do you acknowledge how vanishingly rare it is to have kids who are that far advanced, that it would be unsurprising that the system would have no clue what to do with a kid like that?
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in just my class of 30 people there were another 3-4 kids, who, while not quite as advanced, were many grade levels ahead (like 5) was it something in the water, or are people underestimating kids systematically?
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Grade 5 was like me. But grade 11 is really a different story...
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i kind of doubt i was actually ready for grade 11, i just happened to be as good as the average grade 11 person on the particular tests they did
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