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‘Why do we have to do this crap anyway?'

That's an apt question. Maybe we need to examine the assumptions about public schools - that kids need to sit still and be regulated by bells and buzzers from near-toddlerhood to the time when they can vote. Maybe what is being taught is not relevant to anything in the kid's real life. I've heard it said that public high schools cram two years of learning into a four-year package. Can the same be said for the lower grades? We haven't always had this particular model of public education - and people before that learned how to support themselves and there was no such thing as an ADHD diagnosis until very recently. Just how did our nation manage?

[luckystarmom]

A neuropsychologist that has tested my daughter told me that on average a elementary aged child only reads an average of 8 minutes a day in school. That is totally ridiculous.