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If you were to remove or include anything in American education, what would it be and why?

Hello! I have a couple of questions. 1.Are the exams at Open University 100% online?I don’t live in Uk. 2.What degree do y’all think are the best to opt for if I am interested in healthcare?Ones not requesting to go to med school :)) Thank you!! (Does anyone know any “better degrees” without finances)

Not saying I want to but my school said it’s against rules to have a parent at recess… I don’t know why.. I came to eat lunch with my daughter for her bday. Thx

Before I get into it disclosure: I’m about to ramble a little bit on an idea I have and I’d like to hear your opinion on it because I know it’s not perfect. I’d also like to see if anybody else has thought about this subject before and come up with their own solution.

I’m American so I can’t speak on other countries education system but I feel like this is better than our current system but it would take a lot of time and mom to ever implement and I have neither. So without further ado…

Grade one through five are perfectly fine. They do a good job teaching the basics of math history science and so on.

I believe that a better system for grades six through 12 would be possibly grades eight through 12. If you start to pick your specialization then start picking classes standardized, of course but geared towards things that you’re interested in that way you stay more engaged.

Realistically in life, you’re not gonna need to know every single thing so it’s weird that we try to teach every single subject at the same level to every person why not Taylor it more towards the interest of a certain person .

In my vision, it helps students learn and develop skills towards their intended career. Path earlier helps them retain that information because they learn it earlier and their brain is not full of garbage. They’ll never need because I’m also of the belief the brain has a limited capacity I don’t think you can learn forever . I think that once you have so much information other stuff stops sitting in your brain is easily.

Basically it would be like starting to college track early. It’s like when you have electives in high school based on your interest you get to pick do that earlier and start broader so in sixth grade right you no longer have your standard five classes in fact at the end of fifth grade or possibly at the end of you know maybe wait till they’re older just a little bit end of eighth grade you could have in fact actually yeah we’ll do eighth grade because that’s when you start to learn basic algebra, so we’ll see eighth grade 8th grade you’ve done basic algebra done American history you’ve done a little bit of world history so starting eighth grade you take an aptitude test and then in high school grades nine through 12 we could possibly even make it longer. I mean, realistically you could be in school until you’re 20 unless you wanted to go down one of those working career path then you could get out sooner and it would kind of skip the middleman of college cause you could get your further education for those who wanted it in grades 13 and 14 And for those who want to go the manual labor career path, they would pick those trade type classes in high school and go down that path instead

You could have a branch for people who enjoy history and they could go into history their first year branch out into different sections of history, possibly archaeology, possibly specializing in certain periods of history you could have teaching sections too, which could be paired with those history, classes or those science classes And basically start broader and go narrower. The problem is then you will need a lot more teachers, but if you made knowledge, a bigger part of society, not only would you have smarter people in society as a whole you’d also be pushing more people into like teaching and you could also promote teaching by having it be an actually noble call with a decent pay

I also think we should add in philosophy into middle school age teaching curriculum because it can help understand how the world works and how you should think and understand how you do think without being told how you should think philosophy is a good thing philosophy gets your mind inquiring

Educators did not see the rebound in student aptitude over the past year they were hoping for. Disappointed, finding that reading skills, gauged by the National Assessment of Education Progress, continued a steep decline. 33% of eighth graders tested “below basic” reading levels — the largest number for that category in the test’s three-decade history. Among fourth graders, 40% were below basic, the highest number in 20 years. Math scores showed some progress, but still below prepandemic levels. States that did show some improvement were those that adopted a set of strategies called the science of reading. These “alignearly literacy teaching with cog- nitive science research,” according to the New York Times.

Without spending too much time providing context, I am currently a student going to a local community college that I've attended on/off for a few years now. After being focused as an arts student for my first few semesters, I recently switched to more business oriented classes in pursuit of a broader degree.

The best way I can put it is just feeling out of my depth not knowing anything about the differences between these LLMs and knowing if I can even trust it as a tool in general. I have never had much interaction with AI models aside from number of one offs that have mostly revolved around me asking it stupid prompts for fun with my friends, but outside of just using it to create cool/interesting images, I've always been sort of under the impression that AI is just a cheat code, a generative answer focused on giving the user the response that they will be happy with ahead of it being correct.

Now days I see sooooo much AI generated content across YouTube and Instagram and basically every other social platform that exists, at a certain point I definitely feel like I need to adopt the tool to my arsenal if I am going to succeed. I don't like the idea of relying on a tool to do well, I would love to just do well without using AI as a crutch but I feel so behind especially after how hard Covid hit me when I was in HS, there are gaps in my education.

Compared to when I first started classes in college when talking about using AI teachers seemed to treat it like cheating but, now days it seems relatively (a word I use lightly) acceptable to use AI in a classroom environment as an assistant or tool, much like a calculator, as long as it is not directly copying and pasting your AI's response directly as your answer for the classwork. I have buddies going to much bigger schools and they seem to think its important to be able to use the tool even if its not a necessity. They use it for help with their code, help them understand and take notes on the course content and now its basically apart of their normal work cycle for a lot of their classes. For me, I'm pretty much just uncertain of it all at this point, I don't know where I should fold and fit it into my work flow without compromising my education.

TL:DR -

I want to know how to use AI responsibly as a student.

I’m a high school drop out that is now looking to finish school just because but I work a full time job so I’m looking for online schools that are legit and do work only online. Has anyone been in my situation? If so, what online schools do you recommend that are legit? Thanks in advance.

Colorado has one of the most extensive school choice programs in the U.S., with 28% of students opting for charter, private, or open enrollment schools. But who truly benefits?

✔️ Higher-income families often have the time, resources & knowledge to navigate enrollment & transportation.
✔️ Some charter schools reflect public school diversity, while others resemble elite private schools.
✔️ Education expert Kevin Welner warns that school choice often “adds a layer of stratification on top of existing residential stratification.”

Should school choice policies be reformed to improve equity? What solutions would help level the playing field?

🔗 Full article here

⬇️ What’s your take? Should choice be expanded, restricted, or restructured?

Its really shocking and unacceptable that many students have resorted to using AI in exams instead of using credible and reputable services like superioressaywriters.com

Why do many people think Nursing is the hardest major to pass? what can one expect in this situation

Whose tried and used any academic online service for their assignments? how effective are they with everything including ethical sides

When I was in high school, you had to have an A+ the year before to take honors or AP. I was not permitted by my guidance counselor to take AP World History nor AP US Government because of an A-. Not many kids in my school took AP classes. I took one AP class and the kids made fun of me and made my life hell because I didn’t complete my homework. They had nothing else to do but care about what I did. It got to the point I could not come to class physically and got my assignments given to me. I couldn’t finish my homework because it was at least an hour every night. I would give up. I wish I had just taken regular where I would have had friends. Now I see all these posts saying kids don’t do work in AP and honors and they turn in AI created work. This is insane to me.

Long story short, but I dropped out of high school in 9th grade and I'm going to get my GED this year since it would be the year I was supposed to graduate anyways. With that, can I still go to college?

I’m an A-level student currently using The Feynman Lectures for physics revision and a website called Save My Exams for other subjects like math. I really like these resources because they’re intuitive and help me stay ahead of the game.

However, I’m wondering if there are similar resources available in Mandarin. I struggle with English, so having materials in Mandarin would be really helpful. I’m open to any format—websites, YouTube channels, books, etc.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

I've been homeschooled sense 3rd grade and at this point I feel It's important to get my GED and hopefully go to school for nursing, I just have no idea where I should actually start If I should take classes online in person or just study and take the test I'm honestly not sure, I just don't want it to take forever so I was wondering what would be the smartest thing to do In my position?

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Recent research has quantified the costs and savings of offering a free first year of university education in the U.S. Using open-source virtual classes and national exam proctoring, the total cost would be $331 million—less than 1% of the U.S. Department of Education’s annual budget. In contrast, students would save $63.4 billion per year in tuition and living expenses. Does this evidence prove that free education is financially feasible, or are there hidden challenges that make implementation unrealistic?

Read more: First Step to Scaling Innovation at the National Level in the U.S.: Economic Costs and Savings for Free First Year of National University Education"

(sorry if my English is bad; I'm writing this in the early hours of the morning h aha)

So here are some facts about me:

-I am in top set for English

-I had the same English teacher for three years, however this year I have a different teacher.

- My grades have gone from averaging 85%, 14/20 being my WORST ever score in English, to getting 6 minuses (this may not seem bad, but my teacher is acting like it's bad, that I have time to improve etc).

- I am not disappointed with my scores in any way, so please don't feel like you are a failure and are useless ( I feel like this often)

- I am a worker

Anyways, let me get to the point:

I used to look forward to every upcoming English lesson, wishing I had it every school day rather than four days, now I cannot stand it one bit.

I keep trying to make it more interesting, but I just can't.

It's the teacher, not the subject; whenever I have supplies and work independently I enjoy it.

I had such a great teacher. I don't know whether I'm praising who I had since I had her for over three years, but everyone who has her likes her and most importantly, her teaching method.

I was lenient towards her, based upon my opinions, at the beginning of the year, since maybe it was because I was not used to her teaching method and everything would pan out after the first few months.

Well, it hasn't.

It's only been five months, but nothing has changed. I feel even more clueless.

I don't like asking teachers for help, or when I'm struggling as I don't want to annoy them, however I have asked her multiple times.

She hasn't once helped me. She always says she will, but either forgets or pretends to. I have her everyday, and I always have a clueless face, so it wouldn't take a genius to figure that one out.

I have asked to move down two sets, but they have refused :(((
My mum is friends with my English teacher, since they work as teachers in the same school, which makes the scenario even worse.

Some people find her helpful, others don't.

We got our A Christmas Carol assessment back, and she said to another boy (WHO GOT HIGHER THAN ME)

'oh, so you didn't revise did you?'

How does that make me feel? Excuse me?

The average score was a 6, bare in mind this is a top set class- people from bottom set were SCORING HIGHER!

1 person got a 9, but they used their own method, they said.

My teacher has admitted to being a strict marker, but that's not the problem.

I did a lot of revision, but i felt as though we hadn't really been taught/ covered anything.

She just gives out worksheets and expects you to do them, rather than teach.

Whenever we annotate, we have to use her annotations and when people tell her their idea, she's like ' oh, no, that wouldn't fit' so i feel like i can't use what i want and feel limited.

I feel like whenever we do exams, everyone's points are the same, whereas with my old teacher everyone's points would be varied. This meant that loads of people would do really well, some would do average and there would be some lower ones, being a 5 etc. However a 5 is just below our average class score, and I don't know what was the lowest but she said those who have to resit don't have to.

I feel unmotivated for English.

I don't know what to do.

I know I'm capable of scoring better, but whenever I have English I have no idea what she's on about/ don't understand her techniques.

Days preceding whenever I have a test in English, I have a gut feeling that I'm not going to do well.

I don't know why - I think it's since I feel like I'm waffling, but that's due to not being taught very well.

THANKS FOR READING

Hi all, was wondering whether you can recommend novel uses of chatgpt to help with staff workload?

So i am a accounting student doing professional degree for 3 years but for last 2 years i am continuously failing. Literally gotten used to failure and have totally forgot what it feels to be a achiever. Won’t say that i am not the one to be blamed for this but now i wanna fix stuff!! Will continue to take my professional exams but i also want to learn a skill or something that can help me get a cooperate job. Here to seek advice regarding my situations. Also what is something i can get a degree or diploma in a short time also something that doesn’t demand my full time attention so i am do it side by side to what i am already doing x

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows whether is it possible to do a double degree in Ireland when your university doesn't allow you to do a second one / are there any websites which one can do another degree on (preferably not extremely expensive but I understand that that's usually the case)

Hello, I want to present some thoughts on our western contemporary school systems. To make it short, I am not a proponent of them, I am for reforming them greatly and disestablishing the current system of forced education for specific ages. Instead I have the vision of an education system where the tests and exams are separated from the learning process, where people can learn in different models at any stage in life to qualify for different fields of expertise. To keep up the social process in society that was defined by school, I dream of replacing it with shared social activity across generations instead, which can be part of learning, but where everyone can chose their own place and where people are not assessed or graded for.

Honestly, our current western school system with classes, grades on all aspects of compliance and final marks and assessment every year in all it's flavors from rigid to liberal originates from experiments during monarchy and the beginning of the previous century. I believe the nature is more to discipline the children, than actually putting the gain in knowledge and ability and the social competence into the foreground.

I'm writing this as a Christian, but don't have the homeschooling movement in mind so much. I believe it's not good to deprive children of knowledge and would want to make sure that children get the support to learn the rules of and the truth about our world in a fair, accessible way. I believe it's a chance of individualizing the learning process and liberating it from social constructs, and while it may help homeschooling parents I want to make clear that in a world where certain common knowledge and basic science modules are mandatory to be known and tested for any higher education, as I envision it, people who refuse to accept it would have little chances to comply to society and really pose a problem that needs to be dealt with somehow.

I am an enemy of our school systems and view them akin to forced child labor and militarization and forced indoctrination of children even in their mild forms. I criticize them mainly because of the injustice of forcing such differently predisposed children and young people into arbitrary social constructs which separate people into winners and losers. I believe it is an oppressive system - true merit of social kind is not really rewarded, but only by strict compliance to arbitrary rules, and performance in complying with the taught disciplines.

One aspect of the school being a mandatory, involuntary process is that of great demotivation. The system tries to brush all children over the same brush, but people are very different, and this sets up most pupils to actually hate our schools at least some of the time of their school career, some hate it completely. Some pupils may be motivated, but honestly, most are not, it's common if you talk to teachers that they complain about it and name it demotivating for themselves. I believe this stress, the involuntary situation, the pressure of being compared with each other according to an arbitrary performance, is what breaks and spoils so many, and builds up steam that some people will systematically direct towards weaker individuals of their groups in school.

All these random pupils come together with weaker pupils of similar age, who are damned to fail these tests. I cannot understand or know, how such a cruel system can exist in our modern society without it being spoken out every day, our state systems force young people into schools where they are obviously bound to be losers and underdogs of the system, their failures being a tough strike to their lives. It is known that so many cannot succeed at the set pace - why must the state force these pupils into the school and into this pace and demands, when it is such a nightmare for so many. Children have to live between hard expectations from side of the teachers which they cannot always fulfill on one side, and the massive peer and other pressure from other frustrated pupils, up to resulting in life-threatening bullying. It's literally the state forcing innocent victims into a hell of abuse and psycho terror every day even under threat of punishments. I believe many people don't belong into these schools, they belong to other places and deserve being given the chance in a different way that is more fair and just for them. Who is bullied in school, is traumatized and should not be forced to go to the same or similar places. I dream of different ways of learning, where children are no longer forced together into groups where they would not want to participate, other than in the mandatory tests/exams.

So I believe this all must be prevented and people freed from a system that was once made and thought to discipline children like soldiers. It's time to free our children and give them the fair and righteous chances they deserve, even later in life when they didn't manage it at first - self responsible and safe from people who would direct their aggression towards them due to peer pressure, safe from being put into situations that they are not made or able for in front of many other persons.

I believe in a system, where there is no more forced school at all, also no school with children grouped according to age other than maybe pre- and elementary school like groups, and a general separation between children, teenagers and adults in learning groups. The tests and exams should be completely independent of age, but only dependent on necessary qualifications. I would want the responsibilities of citizens be decided by their ability to cope with the situation, and this system could be used to reflect it in a proper way. I.e. I'd want even for basic rights like making contracts and going for elections a simple test that makes sure any person of full age is witting and educated of the basics of life, reading, writing, political system, financial and legal aspects of life etc. All further qualifications similar - different modules of common, technical, manual, scientific and special knowledge. If you want to make a qualification for a job, you must first prove qualification for the necessary basic knowledge modules, then for the modules necessary for the job, or stages of responsibility within that job, depending on your knowledge and ability. This could be controlled by state authorities and guilds or other professional groups who define the state of common knowledge in the working and academic domains. All qualifications just go by tests/exams qualifying you as a result, where you can (publicly visible) know beforehand what catalogue of knowledge is required - anyone with the necessary prerequisites should be able to just apply for a test and then go get tested for it, no matter of the previous attempts if just the proper prerequisites are met and the testee has valid prospects of not failing the test. I would greatly try to rethink and revise the catalog of required knowledge for each citizen according to their responsibility, and rather try to involve all citizens in common social activities where they can experience these important things like the values of society and the common state of politics, culture and science without pressure and fear of failure in tests. Rather I'd focus education and learning full on specializing people for their jobs and the requirements thereof, and on involving people into actual real world work situations early on where it is desired, as part of learning.

Different social constructs and learning methods must then evolve, to aid in the attempts of each citizens to qualify for the desired exams. I would for example not think of abolishing schools all together - instead many would want to keep the system, and I'd just try to modify it so it would reflect the corresponding qualifications along the school years, leading to the official tests at certain points. I believe though many people would want more freedom in their learning, kind of similar to the change that Covid brought to many people in regard of home office practices. Some people may think, that children would not learn handling social situations well enough without the school system. But please rethink, that our system has so many losers, the bullied, misfits, dropouts who should have learned it a different way, who didn't even fail out of their own fault but just of inability to comply with the form of authority presented. I rather think, that common social activity should be mandatory for people and also bring people together across generations in real world situations that actually help making people's lives better - where each can choose their field of activity and go to a place where they are not bullied but accepted as they are. The necessary social skills for professional activities, I believe are best to be learnt and qualified like other skills or modules, i.e. in courses and internships for the abilities of teaching or managing groups of pupils or being in leadership positions, dealing with foreigners, children, elderly or disabled people, representing or talking in public etc. So a person applying for a job where it is necessary would have to learn and get tested for the ability, first, but only if you really need it.

So this is basically freeing anyone from school and university system. There are different methods possible how one would qualify and how the society could help. Some people would just want to learn on their own, and then apply for the tests. Others may need help, and could go to the former schools which in part could change to offer courses and personal coaching. The teachers would be in a different place, of helping people to be self-responsible of their learning and assisting them in meeting the exams, being a friend and not being their disciplining authority whom the pupils would have to fear for their judgement also of social behavior. A new kind of authority would have to be established, that is a tester who is able to know if somebody is able of an art or skill or knowledge. I can imagine many people would want to continue like we do today, and would allow them to run schools, but I'd say that children old enough, say like 12 or 14 should be able to be educated about their own decision for their own future of learning, whether they want to stay in such a system, or go for a more free way of learning.

I'm interested in your thoughts on this, and I can myself already see some problems. One is, what about people who deny learning and boycott school because they want their children deluded, like some religious extremists might desire - caring for people also means making sure everyone has the fair chance to educate themselves and that children should not be kept stupid or be lied to about our world. I would want other social instruments that make sure that the children are not left behind and their parents also watched over what they do with them until they may decide for themselves. Another question is, currently school is one big social aspect of most people's lives, their whole childhood and youth is defined by it. Even when it has losers, the love, friendship and stories lived through in school is something many people never forget for their whole life. People need something like this, just I'd want something that has less losers in the end and is more just...something more centered on solidarity and helping each other and the weaker parts of society, than on comparing each other and on one's ability or ego.

This is also a bit personal post for me. In the past I've been school-denier and drop out from higher school, I quit school on my own, because I felt it was breaking me to have to obey mindless rules and rites which I believed were pointless for my whole life. I was not really bullied, but saw many others being bullied and downed for no reason, and I silently suffered with them. In the end I couldn't take it any more, and quit it when I had fulfilled the necessary time for it, eager to now live in freedom and teach myself what I needed to work, I wanted to become a computer programmer. I taught myself, but then soon got too sick to be able to get anywhere with it, and my dreams were destroyed. School was not for me, it broke me down...today like back then I always said, I'd have just needed a computer, the right books and some professionals to set me up on it and teach me to be useful for others with it. Maybe a social club for common knowledge and not to lose faith in humans...but school just broke me down, I wasn't like a social soldier, but autistic, and our school system is thought for a completely different type of human who learns and adapts socially instead of rational and experiential like I prefer.

This is also a matter of being traumatised for me, with heavy symptoms. I have in part also been traumatized by this school system, and I know. I am diagnosed psychosis and currently in rediagnosis - I experience voices of former oppressors and sometimes fantastic stories unfolding in my mind, constantly choking me with what seems like dehumanizing attempts to subdue me with psychologically oppressive methods. One story voices in my head keep showing me is that after quitting school for hating the school system, I was poisoned and cast inside a magic school for discipline, without me knowing and against my will, which I then kept refusing completely due to my faith in Christ... Like I have to experience through these voices as if my former friends had deliberately cursed me and botched up my life, bound me to magic and to a hidden school without my knowledge and manipulated my mind to be completely blocked out by voices and magical vision terror, so I would have to fail any life challenge that I was overloaded with in a set-up for refusing their rules and wanting to go my own way instead. Very evil stories, and this is one trauma that school has done to me, among some others though that have to do with broken trust and exploited feelings in friendship.

Some people may thrive in school, but I didn't, and wish I would have been given a different, more fair and just chance, which would have enabled me to be of much greater use for all humanity than I was in my nearly half century of life time...I take it all with Albert Einstein, who was not seen favorable at school in the beginning and even dropped out in resistance to the strict rules which choked him, but later found support due to his special abilities, had a way interesting job and was left alone with his unique mind and enough stimulation and time to think - he could make something really worthwhile with it. I believe countless people like him who could have done a great merit were just stomped on by our system and left behind by society, and I wish this would stop and people no longer be drilled like soldiers under threat of being disqualified when it's just about finding a friendly place to live in and being a useful member of humanity.

Thanks for reading and your honest opinion on my ideas or any suggestion for further thoughts.

Hello, I want to present some thoughts on our western contemporary school systems. To make it short, I am not a proponent of them, I am for reforming them greatly and disestablishing the current system of forced education for specific ages. Instead I have the vision of an education system where the tests and exams are separated from the learning process, where people can learn in different models at any stage in life to qualify for different fields of expertise. To keep up the social process in society that was defined by school, I dream of replacing it with shared social activity across generations instead, which can be part of learning, but where everyone can chose their own place and where people are not assessed or graded for.

Honestly, our current western school system with classes, grades on all aspects of compliance and final marks and assessment every year in all it's flavors from rigid to liberal originates from experiments during monarchy and the beginning of the previous century. I believe the nature is more to discipline the children, than actually putting the gain in knowledge and ability and the social competence into the foreground.

I'm writing this as a Christian, but don't have the homeschooling movement in mind so much. I believe it's not good to deprive children of knowledge and would want to make sure that children get the support to learn the rules of and the truth about our world in a fair, accessible way. I believe it's a chance of individualizing the learning process and liberating it from social constructs, and while it may help homeschooling parents I want to make clear that in a world where certain common knowledge and basic science modules are mandatory to be known and tested for any higher education, as I envision it, people who refuse to accept it would have little chances to comply to society and really pose a problem that needs to be dealt with somehow.

I am an enemy of our school systems and view them akin to forced child labor and militarization and forced indoctrination of children even in their mild forms. I criticize them mainly because of the injustice of forcing such differently predisposed children and young people into arbitrary social constructs which separate people into winners and losers. I believe it is an oppressive system - true merit of social kind is not really rewarded, but only by strict compliance to arbitrary rules, and performance in complying with the taught disciplines.

One aspect of the school being a mandatory, involuntary process is that of great demotivation. The system tries to brush all children over the same brush, but people are very different, and this sets up most pupils to actually hate our schools at least some of the time of their school career, some hate it completely. Some pupils may be motivated, but honestly, most are not, it's common if you talk to teachers that they complain about it and name it demotivating for themselves. I believe this stress, the involuntary situation, the pressure of being compared with each other according to an arbitrary performance, is what breaks and spoils so many, and builds up steam that some people will systematically direct towards weaker individuals of their groups in school.

All these random pupils come together with weaker pupils of similar age, who are damned to fail these tests. I cannot understand or know, how such a cruel system can exist in our modern society without it being spoken out every day, our state systems force young people into schools where they are obviously bound to be losers and underdogs of the system, their failures being a tough strike to their lives. It is known that so many cannot succeed at the set pace - why must the state force these pupils into the school and into this pace and demands, when it is such a nightmare for so many. Children have to live between hard expectations from side of the teachers which they cannot always fulfill on one side, and the massive peer and other pressure from other frustrated pupils, up to resulting in life-threatening bullying. It's literally the state forcing innocent victims into a hell of abuse and psycho terror every day even under threat of punishments. I believe many people don't belong into these schools, they belong to other places and deserve being given the chance in a different way that is more fair and just for them. Who is bullied in school, is traumatized and should not be forced to go to the same or similar places. I dream of different ways of learning, where children are no longer forced together into groups where they would not want to participate, other than in the mandatory tests/exams.

So I believe this all must be prevented and people freed from a system that was once made and thought to discipline children like soldiers. It's time to free our children and give them the fair and righteous chances they deserve, even later in life when they didn't manage it at first - self responsible and safe from people who would direct their aggression towards them due to peer pressure, safe from being put into situations that they are not made or able for in front of many other persons.

I believe in a system, where there is no more forced school at all, also no school with children grouped according to age other than maybe pre- and elementary school like groups, and a general separation between children, teenagers and adults in learning groups. The tests and exams should be completely independent of age, but only dependent on necessary qualifications. I would want the responsibilities of citizens be decided by their ability to cope with the situation, and this system could be used to reflect it in a proper way. I.e. I'd want even for basic rights like making contracts and going for elections a simple test that makes sure any person of full age is witting and educated of the basics of life, reading, writing, political system, financial and legal aspects of life etc. All further qualifications similar - different modules of common, technical, manual, scientific and special knowledge. If you want to make a qualification for a job, you must first prove qualification for the necessary basic knowledge modules, then for the modules necessary for the job, or stages of responsibility within that job, depending on your knowledge and ability. This could be controlled by state authorities and guilds or other professional groups who define the state of common knowledge in the working and academic domains. All qualifications just go by tests/exams qualifying you as a result, where you can (publicly visible) know beforehand what catalogue of knowledge is required - anyone with the necessary prerequisites should be able to just apply for a test and then go get tested for it, no matter of the previous attempts if just the proper prerequisites are met and the testee has valid prospects of not failing the test. I would greatly try to rethink and revise the catalog of required knowledge for each citizen according to their responsibility, and rather try to involve all citizens in common social activities where they can experience these important things like the values of society and the common state of politics, culture and science without pressure and fear of failure in tests. Rather I'd focus education and learning full on specializing people for their jobs and the requirements thereof, and on involving people into actual real world work situations early on where it is desired, as part of learning.

Different social constructs and learning methods must then evolve, to aid in the attempts of each citizens to qualify for the desired exams. I would for example not think of abolishing schools all together - instead many would want to keep the system, and I'd just try to modify it so it would reflect the corresponding qualifications along the school years, leading to the official tests at certain points. I believe though many people would want more freedom in their learning, kind of similar to the change that Covid brought to many people in regard of home office practices. Some people may think, that children would not learn handling social situations well enough without the school system. But please rethink, that our system has so many losers, the bullied, misfits, dropouts who should have learned it a different way, who didn't even fail out of their own fault but just of inability to comply with the form of authority presented. I rather think, that common social activity should be mandatory for people and also bring people together across generations in real world situations that actually help making people's lives better - where each can choose their field of activity and go to a place where they are not bullied but accepted as they are. The necessary social skills for professional activities, I believe are best to be learnt and qualified like other skills or modules, i.e. in courses and internships for the abilities of teaching or managing groups of pupils or being in leadership positions, dealing with foreigners, children, elderly or disabled people, representing or talking in public etc. So a person applying for a job where it is necessary would have to learn and get tested for the ability, first, but only if you really need it.

So this is basically freeing anyone from school and university system. There are different methods possible how one would qualify and how the society could help. Some people would just want to learn on their own, and then apply for the tests. Others may need help, and could go to the former schools which in part could change to offer courses and personal coaching. The teachers would be in a different place, of helping people to be self-responsible of their learning and assisting them in meeting the exams, being a friend and not being their disciplining authority whom the pupils would have to fear for their judgement also of social behavior. A new kind of authority would have to be established, that is a tester who is able to know if somebody is able of an art or skill or knowledge. I can imagine many people would want to continue like we do today, and would allow them to run schools, but I'd say that children old enough, say like 12 or 14 should be able to be educated about their own decision for their own future of learning, whether they want to stay in such a system, or go for a more free way of learning.

I'm interested in your thoughts on this, and I can myself already see some problems. One is, what about people who deny learning and boycott school because they want their children deluded, like some religious extremists might desire - caring for people also means making sure everyone has the fair chance to educate themselves and that children should not be kept stupid or be lied to about our world. I would want other social instruments that make sure that the children are not left behind and their parents also watched over what they do with them until they may decide for themselves. Another question is, currently school is one big social aspect of most people's lives, their whole childhood and youth is defined by it. Even when it has losers, the love, friendship and stories lived through in school is something many people never forget for their whole life. People need something like this, just I'd want something that has less losers in the end and is more just...something more centered on solidarity and helping each other and the weaker parts of society, than on comparing each other and on one's ability or ego.

This is also a bit personal post for me. In the past I've been school-denier and drop out from higher school, I quit school on my own, because I felt it was breaking me to have to obey mindless rules and rites which I believed were pointless for my whole life. I was not really bullied, but saw many others being bullied and downed for no reason, and I silently suffered with them. In the end I couldn't take it any more, and quit it when I had fulfilled the necessary time for it, eager to now live in freedom and teach myself what I needed to work, I wanted to become a computer programmer. I taught myself, but then soon got too sick to be able to get anywhere with it, and my dreams were destroyed. School was not for me, it broke me down...today like back then I always said, I'd have just needed a computer, the right books and some professionals to set me up on it and teach me to be useful for others with it. Maybe a social club for common knowledge and not to lose faith in humans...but school just broke me down, I wasn't like a social soldier, but autistic, and our school system is thought for a completely different type of human who learns and adapts socially instead of rational and experiential like I prefer.

This is also a matter of being traumatised for me, with heavy symptoms. I have in part also been traumatized by this school system, and I know. I am diagnosed psychosis and currently in rediagnosis - I experience voices of former oppressors and sometimes fantastic stories unfolding in my mind, constantly choking me with what seems like dehumanizing attempts to subdue me with psychologically oppressive methods. One story voices in my head keep showing me is that after quitting school for hating the school system, I was poisoned and cast inside a magic school for discipline, without me knowing and against my will, which I then kept refusing completely due to my faith in Christ... Like I have to experience through these voices as if my former friends had deliberately cursed me and botched up my life, bound me to magic and to a hidden school without my knowledge and manipulated my mind to be completely blocked out by voices and magical vision terror, so I would have to fail any life challenge that I was overloaded with in a set-up for refusing their rules and wanting to go my own way instead. Very evil stories, and this is one trauma that school has done to me, among some others though that have to do with broken trust and exploited feelings in friendship.

Some people may thrive in school, but I didn't, and wish I would have been given a different, more fair and just chance, which would have enabled me to be of much greater use for all humanity than I was in my nearly half century of life time...I take it all with Albert Einstein, who was not seen favorable at school in the beginning and even dropped out in resistance to the strict rules which choked him, but later found support due to his special abilities, had a way interesting job and was left alone with his unique mind and enough stimulation and time to think - he could make something really worthwhile with it. I believe countless people like him who could have done a great merit were just stomped on by our system and left behind by society, and I wish this would stop and people no longer be drilled like soldiers under threat of being disqualified when it's just about finding a friendly place to live in and being a useful member of humanity.

Thanks for reading and your honest opinion on my ideas or any suggestion for further thoughts.

The public school my son went to in California was only closed for a few months, March -> June 2020 but reopened that August so he only missed a few months of in class learning. I'm reading now that some schools were even closed until 2022. What determined how long a school was closed for in person learning?

I would hope that going to a private school meant your chances of getting into a good college increases or at least you have aspirations to do so. For example I live in CA and I want my kids to go to a UC but I don't think they're gonna get into UCLA, Cal, Stanford, or any good school in state. It seems like Cal State's are realistic and I can't help but think if that's the route they're going then why did I waste money having them go to a private school? They could've went to a normal public school and easily gotten in to a Cal State school.

I live in uk and I have a math Test coming up and one of the subjects there is generating sequences , I know this is a bit of a dumb question but I’m not sure if I’m meant to Write down all the numbers of the sequence till I reach the amount or if I just need to repeat one for example if it asked me to generate the 5th sequence of nine do I just right down 45 or do I write down 9,18,27,36,45

Trump has issued two executive orders that could significantly affect K-12 education:

1: Threatening Public School Funding – Schools that the administration claims promote "gender ideology" or "discriminatory equity ideology" may lose federal funding. The 1776 Commission is also reinstated, promoting a government-mandated version of U.S. history.
2: Expanding School Choice – Redirects public funds to private and religious schools, potentially reducing resources for public education.

Official Executive Order:
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News Coverage:
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These policies could affect curriculum, funding, and student support systems—especially for LGBTQ+ students, students of color, and immigrant families.

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I’ve drafted a letter for parents to send to their local school districts, state education officials, and policymakers. If you’re concerned about these policies, feel free to use, share, or adapt it.

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Even if this doesn’t directly impact your child, it affects the education system as a whole. Protecting public education is a collective responsibility.

Would love to hear others' thoughts!

School systems are getting so desperate to increase math scores, they actually will pay students.

Good move or not?

https://www.inquirer.com/education/failed-keystone-exams-philadelphia-algebra-20250122.html

Many factors can be attributed to why preference to group discussion should be given including fostering a dynamic learning environment that goes beyond passive listening and rote memorization, leading to a deeper understanding of the material and better scores to enhanced understanding and retention