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Let middle school and high school students test out of any subject
2017 Feb 26, 5:26pm 9,456 views 26 comments
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PeopleUnited
2017 Feb 27, 6:52am
PeopleUnited
2017 Feb 27, 6:52am
That is one difference between you and I. I trust people to choose if school is in their own best interest or not. Forcing schooling on people who don't want it wastes not only their time but also diminishes the experience for those that do wish to be there and wastes the efforts of the teachers on a race to the lowest common demoninator.
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missing
2017 Feb 27, 7:17am
I trust people to choose if school is in their own best interest or not.
LOL That was a good one.
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We all know from personal experience just how soul-killing the endless hours of middle school and high school can be. To a large degree, school is simply babysitting paid for by the state, with education taking a secondary role.
Torturing so many children is a crime against humanity. It is millions of hours of wasted human lives every year. A better solution would be to give students some reward for learning the material well and quickly. Namely, students should be able to gain the sweet release from the endless drone of a teacher by passing the final exam for the class at any point in the semester.
A student with a passing grade should be liberated to read any subject they like in the library, and to quietly converse (fuck split infinitives) with the other students there. This would be a better education for those students, and the remaining students would have more of the teacher's time to themselves.
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