Posted on 04/01/2024 12:19:31 PM PDT by T Ruth
On a spring night in 2022, Ross Hill was trying to get several of his children—he has eight—tucked into bed for the night.
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“They were in tears because they didn’t want to go to school the next day,” said Mr. Hill, a 38-year-old teacher from Florence, South Carolina (pop: 39,958).
Whether he knew it at the time or not, Mr. Hill’s family was part of a trend in the United States. A surprising number of children are miserable at school, research shows, and it’s a trend that began before the pandemic.
For example, a 2020 Yale study that surveyed some 21,000 high school students across 50 states prior to the pandemic found that 75 percent of children had negative feelings toward school.
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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which analyzed both pre- and post-pandemic data, discovered something even darker: a correlation between school attendance and youth suicide incidence.
“The findings of this study suggest that youth suicides are closely tied with in-person school attendance,” researchers of the December 2022 study concluded. “We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and lowest during summer months.”
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Microschools are independent learning institutions that operate outside of traditional school systems. Often described as “outsourced homeschooling,” they tend to be less bureaucratic than traditional schools, which often emphasize standardized testing and fixed curricula. This makes microschools more agile, flexible, and adaptive, proponents say, allowing them to tailor education to students.
When Mr. Hill first learned about microschools he was intrigued. Then he became excited. He saw his skill set as a good match for what other “edupreneurs” were doing, and he began to explore the business model.
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Last August, with the help of a $10,000 private grant, he launched Mariner Learning Collaborative.
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I never had anything against school itself; it was the principal of the thing.
Me- I am a Jazz fan, especially Be-Bop and Dixieland.
I loved school in my primary years. I attended a Calvert System private school in Istanbul that was installed for the benefit of American consular kids, military and American business folk. By the time I started Jr Hi in Virginia I was years ahead of all my classmates and had had more American and World History than I met through my senior HS year. I gave me tales to tell, too, about walking up a mountain past an old Bosphorus guardian castle and in the snow for most of the school year in 52.After that year less snow and in a converted army deuce-and-a-half school bus twice as far on a very narrow switchbacky one lane.
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Yes, I look back fondly at my years in school. But for most kids they were ready for Summer break. I lived for it!
Victoria (Greatest of Spanish 16C composers, whose works are uncommonly exciting). (1581)
Example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3Es3dYgs4
(yes, this was said over 400 years ago!)
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