I increasingly suspect "unschooling" would be better than status quo, for lots of kids. Not a rigorous study, but: ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014
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This is super interesting! Wonder how to un-confound from e.g. “familes which unschool likely to be engaged, supportive, etc.”
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Yeah, that's one of the main features of the subset of kids I'd expect this to work for! Also: kid's innate drive/curiosity
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But a stronger claim I've heard is: school adds v. little value, so kids might as well do whatever they want. I'm not *sure* that's wrong...
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