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Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by zarkov99 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:34PM (#23012377)
I agree 100%. I think after say 1st grade, most schools are enormously inefficient, their main value is providing free day care and (somewhat) supervised socialization opportunities. The actual academic work is easily done at home with little supervision.
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Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by asdff on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:05PM (#23012701)
A huge thing with elementary schools is fitness. For some kids, gym class is the only time they are physically active. I went to a private middle school that had a rule that you needed to play a sport, even if it meant just being a benchwarmer. Only the football players were chubby at that school.
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Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by zarkov99 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:31PM (#23012924)
Where I live they let home-school kids participate in public school teams. My friends who home-schooled their kids told me that was the best of both worlds.
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Re:Some school districts plan to end the year early, call re... by Talanes on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:02PM (#23013675)
Much more structured than my home-school PE. I would just roller-blade and bike around town, because I had a single mother who couldn't waste time driving me around to see friends. She would just approximate my distance into a PE journal and that was that.
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