force them back to school...it is good for them

[abelard]

https://unherd.com/2021/02/why-we-should-abolish-schools/
"The writer Scott Alexander understands, calling it “child prison”.
School, he argues, “forces children to be confined in an uninhabitable
environment, restrained from moving… in a state of profound sleep
deprivation, under pain of imprisoning their parents if they refuse.”
Recently, the critic Lorna Finlayson wrote that “the real purpose and
priority of the school system was to instil the habit of obedience, of
deference to our superiors.” Finlayson left school at 13 and never
looked back."


extend the lockdown...it will improve the lives of millions
of the young
the young who need schools are the young with irresponsible
and otherwise ignorant 'carers'

[iClaudius]

I think our lad is doing better learning at home. He gets one-to-one
observation, and I'm probably far more motivated than they are to make
him pay attention.

[abelard]

one caring and intelligent parent is far better than
one overworked baby-sitter with 30 fobbed-off
children unloaded by their irresponsible owners

[Pancho]

Oh dear, you appear to be entrenching inequality, what about the parents
whose parents don't help.

I always thought the point of school was to babysit the kids so that the
parents could go out to work. Book learning was just a side effect.

[iClaudius]

Pancho wrote:
> On 23/02/2021 22:59, iClaudius wrote:
>> abelard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://unherd.com/2021/02/why-we-should-abolish-schools/
>>> "The writer Scott Alexander understands, calling it “child prison”.
>>> School, he argues, “forces children to be confined in an uninhabitable
>>> environment, restrained from moving… in a state of profound sleep
>>> deprivation, under pain of imprisoning their parents if they refuse.”
>>> Recently, the critic Lorna Finlayson wrote that “the real purpose and
>>> priority of the school system was to instil the habit of obedience, of
>>> deference to our superiors.” Finlayson left school at 13 and never
>>> looked back."
>>>
>>>
>>> extend the lockdown...it will improve the lives of millions
>>>     of the young
>>> the young who need schools are the young with irresponsible
>>>     and otherwise ignorant 'carers'
>>>
>>
>> I think our lad is doing better learning at home.  He gets one-to-one
>> observation, and I'm probably far more motivated than they are to make
>> him pay attention.
>
> Oh dear, you appear to be entrenching inequality, what about the parents
> whose parents don't help.
>

Our lad needs all the help he can get :-)

> I always thought the point of school was to babysit the kids so that the
> parents could go out to work. Book learning was just a side effect.

Yes, it often seemed like that at primary school. 'Big' school is
better. I'm actually enjoying it.

[iClaudius]

Even in an online lesson, it's hard to stop them messing about in the
chat. When I was young, you wouldn't dare speak out of turn for fear of
getting a piece of chalk thrown at you.