Something that's been brought home to me by my 8yo doing virtual school is the absolute pointlessness of test grades: a thread.
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The further my kid progresses through the education system, the greater the disconnect I feel with the idea that I'm meant to support it uncritically, and the more I feel that teenage!me, who ended school *furious* with how the secondary system worked, was correct.
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All this is a way of saying: as a millennial who lived through the massive dissonant shift between What School Was Meant To Prepare You For vs How Employment Works Now, my baseline faith that a specific mode of schooling is Vital To My Child's Future is, uh, nil.
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The odd thing is that for the first time we’ve actually considered online based home schooling. 14yo son improved in school over the last year. The only reason we sent him back last week is that he is in an immersion program that he would have had to drop out of
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