With the recent reports on where the U.S. kids stand compared to the rest of the world in “education” and knowledge (second from last), those reports tell us that whole educational system needs to be “Sh&t Canned”.
I actually got on the air in Louisville on local talk radio a week or so ago and got to spout my phrase, “public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived it’s usefulness in the late 20th century.”
He said I opened up a can of worms he didn’t have time to dig into. (My paraphrase)
With Khanacademy, MIT and so many other online learning opportunities that are leaps and bounds better than public schools, the only reason for them to still exist is to supply taxpayer paid, and exorbitantly priced babysitting through age 17.