Re:Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class
by milesrout on Saturday April 08, 2017 @07:32PM
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Right, so you're continuing to make things up by pretending that education anywhere that isn't the US is the same as education in the US.
Re:Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class
by thomastjeffery on Sunday April 09, 2017 @03:24AM
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I made no such assertion, in fact, I explicitly mentioned that my anecdotal experience was in the US, and nowhere else, just to clarify that fact.
You are continuing under the assumption that I am taking about any education system outside of the US. Even so, looking through the comments here, I see very similar sentiment from someone in Germany, so it seems likely to me that we are not alone.
It's not an idea. It's commonplace fact (at least in the US). When I was in school, it was very commonplace for teachers to assign an absurd amount of busy-work to take home, and for kids to have several extracurricular activities immediately after school.
The average schedule for a student at my high school consisted of a 7 hour block (including 30min-1hour lunch), then 2-3 hours of whatever sport (or other organized activity) they were a part of, then (if they actually did it) 2-4 hours of homework.
It may be about education, but the totalitarian system that has been created is very controlling, and very stressful.