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A comment on Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age 12 (end of gr 6)?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age ... by barry-cotter on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:08PM (#33631496)
> Most American schools are so regimented that any exploration of knowledge is actually sneered down.

America’s not special. Schools are very similarly run in every government school system I know of and almost all the others. https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=11375

> How did our communities let it get so bad...

If schools provide childcare and sort and rank the children a large majority of parents are satisfied.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone go through Montessori education until age ... by dimitrios1 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @10:41PM (#33634659)
We at the same time lament the fact that the primarily utility of most of our schools are subsidized governmental childcare and also praise the progress of society having liberated the women to be free to pursue the same endeavors as the men.
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