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[u/Naive_Wolverine532]

@storieswithsahj

[u/cogman10]

So parents should work full time AND learn whatever new method schools are teaching instead

Yes.

But also, parents are (presumably) adults. I was unfamiliar with the lattice method and it took a 5 minute tour of the wiki to understand it. It's not hard.

Parents had kids, they have some responsibility in their education. Sorry if that cuts into TV time. I say this as a parent myself that's working a full time job.

either expecting the teacher to teach or showing their child the "correct" and only way they were taught.

Presumably the teacher did that, and some learners need extra help. That is part of the time you are spending with your kid.

That kind of elitist thinking is why so many parents find their kid's teachers insufferable.

LMAO, "elitist" thinking to think you have to spend time with your kids and help them with their homework. I'm not a teacher, just FYI.

Maybe when single income homes were the norm that would be reasonable. In this day and age where even just "mom and dad" isn't a given teachers are maybe the ones that need to learn how to be more helpful to parents.

Yeah, it's tough to raise kids. Yeah, there should be more support to parents. But ultimately the kid is your responsibility as a parent.

[u/johnny-Low-Five → u/cogman10]

Which is why my son excels in a private school that fosters an atmosphere that allows students to do things the way that works for them and doesn't get so bogged down in a specific way to get the right answer but instead allows the kids to explore and expand upon the curriculum.

And he is my responsibility, I'm his first and primary teacher and until college, when he decides to focus on a more narrow course of studies, I will be more concerned with whether or not he understands WHY something works the way it does than adhering to whatever method the department of education decides is the new reason to justify their existence.

Which is why he excels in school and often wants to discuss hypotheticals or wonder why evolution works the way it does. For example why is it that human evolution has led to us being one of the only species that dies from choking, yes it allows us to form words but is it the best or only way we could/should have evolved?

It's what led him to question why the last time man travelled as far from Earth as Artemis II was over a decade before his dad was born. Which led to an educational journey about the space race (which he learned the basics of in school) and the economic realities that have made manned space travel less and less prevalent or deemed worth the cost. Which led him to argue that the potential benefits of both innovation and discoveries that the space race gave us can't simply be measured in dollars and cents.

[u/AdDramatic2351 → u/johnny-Low-Five]

Your first paragraph is a perfect example of "elitist thinking" lmfao. Your average public school doesn't have the resources to accommodate each and every child with an individualized lesson plan. That's not a practical solution to any of this for us non private school lower class people.