politics
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Our HS stats class was also retard math
But actual stats is SUPER useful
And one of the only places you get to learn a lot of math that's more broadly useful
My radical way to fix education is to not just make it daycare like it is now
So much of K-6 rn is just wasted time, and a glorified public daycare system
That fails at education, habit building, life skills, nutrition/physical activity... Honestly everything
15% of people want to learn
70% of people can be compelled to learn
15% of people should be removed
Put the gifted kids on a special track, but socialize them with the 70% as well
And genuinely, create a pre-prison system for the bottom 15%
This isn't a Black thing, memes aside
There is a population in every school who do not want to engage with it, and are a detriment to the entire system
This includes low-functioning special needs
Create a separate system for them, but there is no saving them
Packaging them in with the normal kids makes your metrics look better
But in absolutes, the same number of people are going to wash out
Agreed, but there's no value having them in the normal education system
I do not think there is value in dragging down everyone in the hopes of reforming serial truants, violent instigators, and other non-participants
I don't mean to literally give up on them from day 1
If people don't know this, it's common for schools to allow K-6 teachers to draft kids for their classes each yeah
To try to avoid too many of the bottom 15% being one person's problem
Yeah, you're not getting the drugs in honours thankfully
Most teachers can peg those ratios from super early on too, where kids will fall
Parental involvement is also the biggest measure of how they turn out
If you get natural reinforcement of critical thinking and learning opportunities outside of state-run daycare, you turn out really well
You don't need gold star parents, just ones who know to encourage good habits and development
Yep, and the longer the school system is a failure, the more parents will write it off as well
Also includes schools offloading too much to parents
They rightfully get frustrated when a kid comes home with a mountain of homework they have to essentially re-teach
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 They rightfully get frustrated when a kid comes home with a mountain of homework they have to essentially re-teach
What do you mean? We don't give homework anymore :)
lol.... I hate that catching on
Same with fully virtual lesson plans
There's a balance that's not that hard to strike
I'd have lost it
Not reading the rest of the discussion, but math basically can be broken into two camps, computation heavy and proof heavy
proof heavy stuff I would caution about teaching students earlier, they need more mathematical maturity to do
computations for calc stuff, easily can be done by grade 6, maybe earlier if you set up the fundamentals correctly before that
Mathematical maturity, you can have that at 12