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where are the parent's? They're meant to be the ones teaching these non-academic education to their children.

School does not replace parenting. School is for academic studies - stuff that a parent won't have had the qualifications to teach.




where are the parent's? They're meant to be the ones teaching these non-academic education to their children.

School does not replace parenting. School is for academic studies - stuff that a parent won't have had the qualifications to teach.

This is rigid thinking. We should be adapting schools to the need of the 21st century and challenges our current population faces, rather than have people sink or swim.

Leaving it to parenting alone is basically sink or swim. Some do great. Some do shit. Some are middling. Never mind the fact that a large part of children time are spent in school. Schools are basically daycare. They're also 'raising' children whether we want to admit it or not.

That's pretty much the hard part. There will still be some needs for some academics classes. However, once you teach them how to learn, learning academics is easy to do.




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