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   Jack Garrott said, 5 months ago

   This strikes me as too true to be funny. I attended school all right, but I’d say most of my education took place at home, reading National Geographic and Encyclopedia Britannica, and watching and listening to my parents.
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   skeeterhawk said, 5 months ago

   I didn’t like school, still don’t, but I admit I learned to read in school—not from my parents. And I can thank some great teachers who taught grammar, history and science and computer science in ways that ‘got through.’
   Most of what I know comes from my effort outside of class, but I DID learn in school.
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   punslinger said, 5 months ago

   I tried to pick up stuff everywhere, but school was my default source!
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   1MadHat said, 5 months ago

   School, particularly college, taught me that I could think. A friend taught me how to think. I’ve taught myself what to think about.
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   P Partridge said, 5 months ago

   I learned in school and out…but our education system keeps declining now that schools are kind of forced to teach the government tests and make the mediocre seem exceptional.
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   The J.A.M. said, 5 months ago

   American Public Schools™, ladies and gentlemen…
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   hippogriff said, 5 months ago

   I ran for Texas State Board of Education – the ones the cowardly schools across the nation let write their textbooks.
   I was on the ballot (not a write-in), but none of the corporate media would mention the fact. Eternal vigilance …
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   Coffee-Turtle said, 5 months ago

   Kids are bored of education.
   Perhaps they need more “real world” connections in the curriculum?
   Yeah, I went there. Sorry.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

   Public school isn’t “evil” but it is underfunded and lately is being run by corporations not teachers. The best school system on the planet is run by an elite—-teachers. Not everyone can be one like in the USA. The place is Finland. Study how they achieved their stellar record.
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    rhtatro said, 5 months ago

    School open on Dec. 26th?
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    RUBBER DUCKY said, 5 months ago

    THANK YOU…MEMBERS OF THE PTA
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    Kab Buch said, 5 months ago

    Ruthie perhaps why your not learning is your not paying attention to subjects teacher presents. When children do not listen then parents blame the teachers not their child what do you expect. Two or three states schools are planning to expand school session since the students are not learning as not paying attention.
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    calvinsfriend110 said, 5 months ago

    Who says schools aren’t doing their job?
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    hcr1985 said, 5 months ago

    @

    Some of the blame lies at the foot of parents. My parents were involved in my education, but others are not so lucky. When the parent knows the top 10 songs list, but can’t tell you their kid’s teacher’s name, or at least one friend their kid has at school, there is a problem there.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    Some of us just aren’t cut out to learn in school. I’m one of them. I am mostly self educated.
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