A big part of the problem is just not enough funding going to education - we have nowhere near enough teachers to go around, which ultimately means lots of kids are missing out on the one-on-one education moments that smaller classes would enable (“Just draw a picture”).
But also, in my experience, some of the problem is also the attitude schools have towards this, which tells me they’re not trained enough to deal with the variety of mental and social issues kids face nowadays.
The default setting at my daughter’s school is to talk to me like I’m a parent that needs to be told how to parent, like I’m the one not doing something right. Admittedly, I feel a lot of this attitude probably comes from the school’s principal - he clearly loves the smell of his own farts - but it shits me when they get this haughty, arrogant attitude when talking to you because they’re “educators”, rather than partners (with parents) in teaching our kids how to be humans.
Kids today are dealing with so much more than what I had to deal with going to school in the 70s and 80s. They have information flying at them from all sorts of sources, and it’s nearly (nearly) impossible to raise a kid today without access to technology and the internet. Otherwise, you’re at risk of creating a social pariah, as they’ll invariably miss out on things.
These things have changed the mental and social game considerably, and I feel our education system has done a pretty shit job of keeping up with these changes.
I’ve always felt like our schooling system has barely changed since it was invented. Where as most other public sectors like healthcare and law enforcement have kept up to date with new advancements and techniques, it feels like the school system is the same dusty old thing that existed in the 1800s
But also, in my experience, some of the problem is also the attitude schools have towards this, which tells me they’re not trained enough to deal with the variety of mental and social issues kids face nowadays.
How could they be? Things began changing so quickly from the 2010s onward and it’s taken society at least this long (some are very much still in denial) to realise that children having 24/7, unsupervised access to the internet (and the technology it is intertwined with) is an extremely bad thing for their development. It’s such a difficult situation because it requires swift action, but it’s also not long ago that we were being told that children growing up as “digital natives” was a positive thing.
I really feel for these parents.
A big part of the problem is just not enough funding going to education - we have nowhere near enough teachers to go around, which ultimately means lots of kids are missing out on the one-on-one education moments that smaller classes would enable (“Just draw a picture”).
But also, in my experience, some of the problem is also the attitude schools have towards this, which tells me they’re not trained enough to deal with the variety of mental and social issues kids face nowadays.
The default setting at my daughter’s school is to talk to me like I’m a parent that needs to be told how to parent, like I’m the one not doing something right. Admittedly, I feel a lot of this attitude probably comes from the school’s principal - he clearly loves the smell of his own farts - but it shits me when they get this haughty, arrogant attitude when talking to you because they’re “educators”, rather than partners (with parents) in teaching our kids how to be humans.
Kids today are dealing with so much more than what I had to deal with going to school in the 70s and 80s. They have information flying at them from all sorts of sources, and it’s nearly (nearly) impossible to raise a kid today without access to technology and the internet. Otherwise, you’re at risk of creating a social pariah, as they’ll invariably miss out on things.
These things have changed the mental and social game considerably, and I feel our education system has done a pretty shit job of keeping up with these changes.
I’ve always felt like our schooling system has barely changed since it was invented. Where as most other public sectors like healthcare and law enforcement have kept up to date with new advancements and techniques, it feels like the school system is the same dusty old thing that existed in the 1800s
How could they be? Things began changing so quickly from the 2010s onward and it’s taken society at least this long (some are very much still in denial) to realise that children having 24/7, unsupervised access to the internet (and the technology it is intertwined with) is an extremely bad thing for their development. It’s such a difficult situation because it requires swift action, but it’s also not long ago that we were being told that children growing up as “digital natives” was a positive thing.
I strongly recommend you listen to Dr Billy Garvey’s views on screen time and technology.
Why is that?