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Originally Posted by JimJohnson
Being a retired school teacher, Gracie, what is your opinion?
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I was reading some of the responses and wondered how bad it could be to just forget school and formal education for a year to see if things are better and safer later for teachers and kids. I hear arguments that children forget what they learned over summer, but I don't know. I remember my high school French and some really useless higher math and I graduated in '57. Perhaps they could be taught to be helpful keeping the home clean or seeing how it is to plant vegetables and fruit to eat, or even planting flowers and tending them. I mowed the yard with an old fashioned no motor lawn mower and we had a hill in front. It was HOT in July. High school kids could be taught how to run a home and how much it costs and to be careful and prudent with money. There are so many important things like that, that have been neglected. Older kids could make virtual visits to seniors alone in nursing homes for a chat and a laugh together.........so many things in this world need to be learned that are not taught in school.
Teachers could during that time find employment in another field. I have always thought that all education would be improved if our teachers were involved for awhile in retail business.
You asked. That is my fifty cents, sir.