Schools are becoming less efficient in educating, amirite?

I used to agree with you. But later realized that sports and other miscellaneous activities help develop social skills. We really need to develop the social skills of the youth. The other day I saw a concerning stat that many Gen Z kids have no friends, so many future incels incoming.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Sports good. Kids getting out of classes early because of sports, bad. Kids having practices run late into the evening, also bad. The huge focus many schools have on promoting sports, bad as well.

by Susan05 1 week ago

Homeschooling is objectively better for children thanks to books, TV, and the internet. Way more information available than sending them to a babysitter for 8 hours a day to be bullied. Obviously socializing and extracurricular activities are important but you don't have to go to public or private school to get those. Take your child places, socialize them, guide them in life. Humans will never be able to control other humans because life is not fair.

by ryost 1 week ago

They would have to look up from their phones for 3 seconds to make a friend

by Important_Doughnut 1 week ago

You could socialize outside of school, sports clubs, art clubs. School is a very strict environment at least in the uk. There should be a place that's more chill to discover your passions and hobbies.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

1) kids can't drive themselves 2) parents have jobs

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If kids only spent 4 hours at school on education than parents literally wouldn't be able afford raising them lol

by Douglasshanelle 1 week ago

You could also learn outside of school, yet we still have schools.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

School is a great place to find hobbies that you can enjoy with your peers. You're guaranteed some socializing time and you could join an after school club that fits you're interests.

by adolphmarvin 1 week ago

Sports help kids get bullied. A kid who is getting bullied for being bad at sports or whatever will not be learning many social skills.

by Hot_Response 1 week ago

Not every kid needs to do sports other than the bare minimum required. There are other non sports activities that can help develop social skills based on each kids preferences... Theater, dance, debate, band etc. Also the source of bullying is not sports themselves, but other kids with problems at home.

by Time-Lifeguard7057 1 week ago

Bullies do not have problems at home, generally speaking. Bullies bully kids because it is fun. Not because of their non -existent household abuse. Also, kids should not be forced into doing any sports or physical activities. Not everyone likes to exercise. Not everyone can become physically fit. Trying to force people to become physically fit will only end badly.

by Hot_Response 1 week ago

Kids do not learn social skills from being bullied. The only things bullying teaches kids is how to hate life and hate humanity.

by Hot_Response 1 week ago

You were targeted and that is not ok. Bullying in that way should have adult intervention and reprehension. That is a huge issue in the US too and I am sorry you had to go through that. I am not talking about that though, I am talking about banter which today people often refer to as bullying when they shouldn't.

by Time-Lifeguard7057 1 week ago

lmao from my experience you're not gonna be bullied for being "bad" at a sport. You'll be bullied if you're arrogant and bad at the sport.

by Ok_Scientist_1323 1 week ago

Being unathletic is more than enough for you to get bullied in most schools. Even if you're not arrogant.

by Hot_Response 1 week ago

Hopefully they know the difference between "loose" and "lose".

by Haunting-Remove5320 1 week ago

"…. Simply focussed on education". Tell me you've no idea what is involved in being a teacher without telling me.

by Bulky-Drive 1 week ago

Wow...almost like bigger class sizes make things more difficult

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm old school but whether the kids want to learn something or not isn't really a way to teach. I'll agree that a bad teacher makes it impossible to learn but presuming all lessons should engage a student completely is silly. Sometimes we have to do things that suck, and do them anyways.

by Esmitham 1 week ago

I think the priority is providing daycare for working parents, then actually effectively educating.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

The priority is 100% safeguarding above all else. Education is important yes, but making sure the children are safe in all ways is the priority. This also includes (and most commonly) safety from the child's family itself.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

disagree. the vaule of school is beyond what they can physically stuff into your brain. if u think of school as a place to learn via memory then school has failed you. school should give u a foundation by which you seek information yourself, to answers schools can not teach. it should give u a set of skills to find out information. being able to read, write, comprehension, maths, basic science understanding, all of these are taught and then it is up to you to improve upon it. the infamous "i have not been taught taxs" is a mix of being able to read, write and do maths with some basic knowledge gathering from science skills. why teach them taxs when u can literally teach them skills to find out any information they will need.

by Every_Patient 1 week ago

Schools need to bring back tests and stakes

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Maybe if parents actually held their kids accountable, and not bitch at the teachers for their kid's poor grades/attendance then we can see teachers who aren't burnt out by year five in their field.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Do you mean focus on academics?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Doesn't help that funding has and continues to be gutted across the board.

by Susan05 1 week ago

Well you kneecap public education and what do you expect?

by dcrist 1 week ago

I don't think this is an unpopular opinion. There's just not much of an alternative to the schools. In general though, k-12 is becoming damn near useless for kids these days. I can think of so many more relevant skills that would help them when they grow up that just aren't taught in schools. I used to be against homeschooling becuase I think it largely attracts religious nuts who precisely should NOT be the ones homeschooling their kids, but I've sort of changed my opinion. I think otherwise balanced parents who have the resources should be homeschooling their kids.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Schools have never been efficient in terms of education. Schools are efficient at pumping out obedient drones and making the lives of kids suck hard though.

by Hot_Response 1 week ago

It is definitely interesting you can get a better faster more comprehensive education watching 30 minutes of YouTube than you can in an entire week's worth of school

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Schools don't educate, they program and condition.

by Efficient-Let-3974 1 week ago