A world without schools is a sorry one

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OPINION: The 2010s saw a growing tendency to argue against the principle of mass compulsory schooling. 2020 has shown how wrong that argument is.

The 2010s saw a growing tendency to argue against the principle of mass compulsory schooling.

While most educators have tended to shrug off such challenges, these ideas have certainly been gaining traction within policy and business circles.

School closures are also highlighting how reliant economies are on parents being able to leave children at school. The option of "working from home" with children applies only to a small subsection of white-collar employees. Most other workplaces cannot be so flexible.

 

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This would have been more effective if it didn't shoehorn in the editorial line and link in school closures. Especially as they never closed in Australia and hard pressed teachers have been dealing with remote and local lesson planning.

YES but read how Education should be done: See Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' on YouTube. See Neil Postman's 'Graduation Speech', also on YOUTUBE. See his books 'Technopoly' and 'Teaching as a Subversive Activity'.

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