Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Dr. What
Date : Fri Mar 28 2025 07:46 am

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

AT> Somehow my kid manages to get her homework done while in school, so her
AT> Chromebook never comes out of her backpack while it's here.

It's the lowering of standards.  Your kid is above average, so works during
school - while her classmates use school as a social club.  They have to set
the standards for the social club people.

AT> I don't think God (or nature) ever intended for kids to be sent to a
AT> daily indoctrination center to learn things.

We've known for a long time now that the current method of education doesn't
work.  But the "experts" keep pushing their failed policies.

AT> There's a lot of things
AT> wrong with that picture. And they just so happen to be Democrat? And it
AT> just so happens to be that every school has pedophiles? It's no
AT> coincidence. How did we get here? Did schools used to be a good thing?

Schools were going bad 40+ years ago.  Bad teachers allowed to stay.  Teachers
that committed sexual offences were "asked to leave" (but were never really
held accountable).  Classes were boring and useless.  And more.

For me, if I wanted to learn something, I figured it out for myself using the
resources that I had available.

And in my senior year, I had the opportunity to get some real work experience
in my (soon to be) career, and the school actively resisted me getting that
experience.  We (me, parents, etc.) had to really turn up the pressure on the
school to let me participate in the program that they had available for people
like me.


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