• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    14 days ago

    Then parents need to stop using such things as babysitters.

    And parents also need to get up in arms about lazy “educators” using tech to make their job easier (instead of making learning more effective, which is the bullshit argument that’s always used).

    • cybermass@lemmy.ca
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      14 days ago

      Parenting is harder than ever, so I don’t blame parents.

      Back in the day you would have the mother home all the time, even more recently there was still a strong community in most places and big families meant lots of babysitters.

      Nowadays it’s fend for yourself for everybody almost everywhere, so raising a kid properly is almost impossible unless you are rich or have a lot of free time.

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        14 days ago

        While I can see your point I would like to point out that that might excuse problems parents have raising their children but not parents making that everyone else’s problem by insisting the rest of the world is made child-safe somehow.

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      14 days ago

      Most of the technical problems with learning/teaching are actually caused by sticking to outdated 19th century concepts in schools such as having the (by definition average) local teacher explain things instead of someone who actually knows how to explain the subject matter well and pretending that kids need to memorize everything in a modern world instead of incorporating the ability to look up things into the learning process.

      Most of the actual major problems with education are caused by funding structures and deliberate sabotage by parts of society who benefit from an uneducated population without critical thinking and research skills.