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What about the social side? Kids benefit from being around other kids.

Mar 6, 2017

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in a society with home schooling, there'll be plenty of other kids around. I think they also benefit from time around adults.

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What you end up with is a type of school, isn't it? Something along Steiner lines, but without the racism and bullshit.

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(it is also really ugly.)

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I'll take a look.

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IMHO, teaching is a skill and in the best cases a talent. Widespread homeschooling would have great successes and great failures.

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I think most teachers, due to the restrictions that schools place, are bad, not because of talent but because of bureaucracy

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I think most teachers would agree. It's hard to find teachers who don't hate the system.

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The system doesn't trust teachers, so it restricts the damage of poor teaching, but crushes the brilliance of good teaching.

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It doesn't have to be like that, though. Getting kids together in groups with educators isn't, for me, the core problem.

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*Peeking in* But it is exactly the core problem. The core problem is the organizational problems w/schooling, priv and pub

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And there is variance on this between countries, but e.g. where I'm from the worst teachers are rated the best.

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This is definitely a huge problem and the system is sufficiently unsure of what makes a "good" teacher that efforts to…

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They are rated on areas like attendance and homework completion, and the worst teachers are bullies who threaten the kids.

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I personally got failed out of an entire subject for talking back to the teacher when he was being extremely rude.

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Guy was a prick, all the students hated him, and the school thought he was one of their best educators. This was normal.

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