Home school or get him in a better private school.
Me, I’m so completely jealous of kids now. They have a chance to be free of the government labor indoctrination camps known as public school. My parents bought me an encyclopedia and took me to the public library. That was living large back then.
Now it’s Khan Academy and the Web. Your son is free to achieve and learn at his own pace, on the subjects that interest him, with Khan Academy providing yard sticks of progress to his achievement versus his age cohort and versus a corpus of knowledge. I’m trying to figure out how to turn my life into a video game where I get points for achievement, while Khan has already done that for kids.
Sounds like your kid is bright. Public school is child abuse for a bright kid. He will learn all the wrong lessons, things that will hamstring him for the rest of his life. He’ll learn that he doesn’t have to work. He’ll learn that he can beat his peers while being a lazy jerk off. He’ll learn that “being smart” is the standard of status, not achievement.
And he’ll fail to learn how to drive himself. Fail to learn how to overcome setbacks. Fail to learn how to discipline himself.
Sounds like he likes to read. If he did that all day, reading whatever he wanted, he’d be miles ahead of most kids. See if Khan Academy can appeal as a video game. And try to encourage him to produce things and take pride in what he produces.
If he was reading when he was 1 and is as smart as he seems, you risk close to nothing taking him out of school now and trying home schooling.
And so much to potentially gain: a human childhood made of growing and exploring the world, instead of being institutionalized by the state.
Public school is child abuse for a bright kid. He will learn all the wrong lessons, things that will hamstring him for the rest of his life. He’ll learn that he doesn’t have to work. He’ll learn that he can beat his peers while being a lazy jerk off. He’ll learn that “being smart” is the standard of status, not achievement.
And he’ll fail to learn how to drive himself. Fail to learn how to overcome setbacks. Fail to learn how to discipline himself.
Amen to all of the above, from personal experience.
Me, I’m so completely jealous of kids now. They have a chance to be free of the government labor indoctrination camps known as public school. My parents bought me an encyclopedia and took me to the public library. That was living large back then.
Now it’s Khan Academy and the Web. Your son is free to achieve and learn at his own pace, on the subjects that interest him, with Khan Academy providing yard sticks of progress to his achievement versus his age cohort and versus a corpus of knowledge. I’m trying to figure out how to turn my life into a video game where I get points for achievement, while Khan has already done that for kids.
Sounds like your kid is bright. Public school is child abuse for a bright kid. He will learn all the wrong lessons, things that will hamstring him for the rest of his life. He’ll learn that he doesn’t have to work. He’ll learn that he can beat his peers while being a lazy jerk off. He’ll learn that “being smart” is the standard of status, not achievement.
And he’ll fail to learn how to drive himself. Fail to learn how to overcome setbacks. Fail to learn how to discipline himself.
Sounds like he likes to read. If he did that all day, reading whatever he wanted, he’d be miles ahead of most kids. See if Khan Academy can appeal as a video game. And try to encourage him to produce things and take pride in what he produces.
And so much to potentially gain: a human childhood made of growing and exploring the world, instead of being institutionalized by the state.
Amen to all of the above, from personal experience.