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Re:Students are increasingly refusing to go to school by achates on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @11:40AM (#35976898)
I think the evidence that school is extremely important is weak at best. For example, students who don't learn any math until 5th grade caught up to their peers by 6th grade: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/freedom-learn/2010...

There have been other studies where students who had to miss large amounts of school due to a natural disaster caught up within a few years and there was no measurable difference in adulthood.

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Re:Students are increasingly refusing to go to school by o0banky0o on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @12:26PM (#35977636)
Maybe not "extremely" important, but autodidacticism can be terribly socially pathological, which pedagogy is meant to deal with. A lot of the point seems to be social, we want our kids to be able to navigate each others ideas with a common logic
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Re:Students are increasingly refusing to go to school by aaomidi on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:18PM (#35997014)
Then why do we put them in school where in most cases they barely get to interact in that way?
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Re:Students are increasingly refusing to go to school by o0banky0o on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:20AM (#36125910)
What do you mean?
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Re:Students are increasingly refusing to go to school by lamontcg on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:13PM (#35979859)
One thing the pandemic taught us is that school is primarily baby-sitting for parents that work.
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Re:Students are increasingly refusing to go to school by peteradio on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:17AM (#35989186)
> For example, students who don't learn any math until 5th grade caught up to their peers by 6th grade:

That was a study done from almost a hundred years ago, its hard to imagine its exactly applicable today.

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