adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.
children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.
Kids are desperate to avoid the stress of dealing with insurmountable piles of homework, abusive faculty, bullies their own age, and shitty cafeteria food on only five hours of sleep.
yeah it’s almost like most modern american education isn’t about teaching actually useful shit but to get good test scores, and how it repeatedly stamps down on anyone slightly odd and also actively worsens the learning environments for people with learning disabilities, and how they always cut things like recess and PE, then have the gall to wonder why children struggle in classes where they’re working for periods of time adults have a difficult time with, with almost no breaks
YEAH Y’FUCKIN WONDER HUH
Something that always struck me as odd was how in college, you not only could show up to school later, were encouraged to take only two or three classes a day, and were allowed the freedom to go to the bathroom whenever, when before in public school it was 6-8 classes a day with no break time in between at all, starting very early in the morning, and you were damn near treated like a criminal for having to pee.
We consider adults more capable than children but give them an easier time in college than we do in grade-high school.
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