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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by Turing_Machine on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:33PM (#38091696)
> This is not an accurate description of school.

Hmm... so you're saying that students aren't segregated into artificial cohorts of a specific age, and there isn't an authority figure in the classroom telling them what to do?

Perhaps that's the case where you live (though I'm...skeptical), but it certainly is the case here and everywhere else I've ever lived.

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Re:Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form... by tivert on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @09:20AM (#38097829)
> Hmm... so you're saying that students aren't segregated into artificial cohorts of a specific age, and there isn't an authority figure in the classroom telling them what to do?

IIRC that sounds a bit like Montessori (done right), but that's uncommon generally and extremely uncommon in upper grades.

I wasn't even sure what an upper-grade Montessori program would look like, and I found this: https://amshq.org/About-Montessori/Inside-the-Montessori-Cla....

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