UNESCO calls for schools around the world to ban smartphones in the classroom
UNESCO calls for schools around the world to ban smartphones in the classroom
The UN agency said that even being close to a smartphone has been linked with students being distracted in the classroom, which in turn causes poorer student performances.
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So now that we have removed the distraction of cell phones, we can get kids to focus on - what exactly? A curriculum that favors rote memorization, where children cannot even relieve themselves without an authority figure allowing them to do so, where they are forced to sit still for hours to better prepare them for mind numbing, pointless office jobs, and where we can teach them skill that were obsolete 30 years ago, and will be even more once they hit the job market?
Abolish kid prisons.
Ah yes, let’s do away with schools altogether because they could stand some improvement here and there, so the next generation is completely dysfunctional from the get go and society collapses a few decades earlier
Schools are completely worthless, we need to reinvision them from the start, we're just using them as shitty daycare right now.
Just to start with we desperately need federalized school management, a bunch of barely literate parents shouldn't be the ones deciding what their kids learn, that's why the schools I went to in the south were very delicate when it came to history during the Civil war or science, really in general.
Beyond this we need a university board to step in with expectations on what a child should know before college, and everyone should build a curriculum backwards through the grades to fulfill them. These expectations should be raised over time.
But we don't want that, we want a daycare and political football/voting bloc because the people running the schools are generally the idiots produced by it.
Not an american so I don’t share your view on the educational system, but suffice it to say that yours barely qualifies as one from my view.
Wife is swedish, they have a functional system, the nordics are great at all the civil aspects of society.
There are decent schools in the US, but they are few and far between, only rich districts with the high property values needed to fund schools are able to sustain a reasonable standard.
It seems you attended a really bad school.
What's your suggestion? Make them work in coal mines?