Comment by spiderfarmer
5 days ago
I teach my kids valuable lessons in the car, during dinner and on evening walks. But I’m not in a country that is starving their education system.
5 days ago
I teach my kids valuable lessons in the car, during dinner and on evening walks. But I’m not in a country that is starving their education system.
This is asinine.
Next time you're in the car, try teaching your kid about solving systems of equations where both are linear vs one is linear and the other is parabolic. It's a lot easier to sketch it out on scratch paper than to pontificate from the driver's seat.
Try talking about history, philosophy, literature, religion, sociology, or physics while driving. Audio books exist, after all.
that's not germane to this conversation. it's about parents without formal teaching certs working with their children to given them what they need to excel.
Sure those things (history/philosphy/etc) matter but in our society you still have to do well on math tests to do well in life.
As a parent you can teach them directly (homeschool) or augment a public school education, but the augmentation route needs to be done in slack time, which is tough.