Comment by pwillia7
3 days ago
Nah -- the schools should teach to the average student and address the average problems. I don't begrudge the school system for not catering to me when I went through it.
3 days ago
Nah -- the schools should teach to the average student and address the average problems. I don't begrudge the school system for not catering to me when I went through it.
No one is really average. Even people who are average overall are not average in every skill and every subject. /classroom This is an intrinsic problem with classroom teaching. There is an HN discussion about home education (or "homeschooling" as people misleadingly call it) at the moment...
Schools need to teach everyone basic skills for life in society. Whatever those are. In lower grades that is about the same for everyone, but as you move on schools need to push kids to where they will do well. I took metal shop in school, but I was always on the college track and so this was just a fun class I only took because I have one block that nothing else fit in - for all other kids in that class it was essential to their future life and they knew it.
The average student shouldn't be expected to remember more than 5% of what they learn through school because teaching them to use a computer program for half an hour is too hard? That's bleak.
_if_ teaching them to use a computer program for half an hour is too hard.