If you have time how do you feel about the proposal. It seems like it engages with problems with the Prussian inspired education system used in America by collecting the effective parts of charters, and un/home schooling, although it opposes charters but allows for un/home school to exist.
I grew up in California, and many of my friends chose to go to community college part-time instead of high school, and basically got this “modular” design the commenter discusses for later education. I think it worked really well for them. When I was 13 I really wanted an academically “normal” environment, probably irrationally so, maybe a little rebelliously so, which is why I didn’t choose to do this. I think expanding California’s already very high caliber and affordable community college network to provide a more independent alternative to high school could be a great option for a lot of kids. I have trouble fully understanding how this proposal would be implemented for earlier grades, though it sounds nice. I think decoupling the necessary from the enrichment in school would help a lot. I went to a large urban public high school, and remember seeing a lot of kids who were legally forced to learn a ton of math that had nothing to do with their very real material struggles that could optimistically take a decade to materialize into a tangible career from a teacher who also didn’t care about math. I can’t help but think these students would have been better served by dropping out of high school, doing a 3 month dev bootcamp, then applying to software engineering jobs, and potentially reentering the school systems once they had more stability in their lives.
Someone wrote a comment on the school format they endorsed on ShtetlOptimized:
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6146#comment-1919410
If you have time how do you feel about the proposal. It seems like it engages with problems with the Prussian inspired education system used in America by collecting the effective parts of charters, and un/home schooling, although it opposes charters but allows for un/home school to exist.
I grew up in California, and many of my friends chose to go to community college part-time instead of high school, and basically got this “modular” design the commenter discusses for later education. I think it worked really well for them. When I was 13 I really wanted an academically “normal” environment, probably irrationally so, maybe a little rebelliously so, which is why I didn’t choose to do this. I think expanding California’s already very high caliber and affordable community college network to provide a more independent alternative to high school could be a great option for a lot of kids. I have trouble fully understanding how this proposal would be implemented for earlier grades, though it sounds nice. I think decoupling the necessary from the enrichment in school would help a lot. I went to a large urban public high school, and remember seeing a lot of kids who were legally forced to learn a ton of math that had nothing to do with their very real material struggles that could optimistically take a decade to materialize into a tangible career from a teacher who also didn’t care about math. I can’t help but think these students would have been better served by dropping out of high school, doing a 3 month dev bootcamp, then applying to software engineering jobs, and potentially reentering the school systems once they had more stability in their lives.