Not to mention schools using grades, signed slips, and other extrinsic motivators to encourage conformity and obedience, all the while extinguishing any intrinsic motivation, like curiosity.
I'm sure the way schools look made a lot of sense in the time of industrialisation and the manual labour of the factory worker, but it's crazy we still shape students by that mould when it's so far removed from the creative pursuits we expect them to go on later in life.
“Signed slips”... our son turned 18 half-way through his senior year of high school. So I explained that he could now sign his own excuses for being tardy, and no actually explanation was required.
“Please excuse <name>, I am tardy.” <signature of name>”
If signed slips are ever needed with my children, I plan on doing what my parents did for me: teach the children to self-sign from day one. Their responsibility, their signature.
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Not to mention schools using grades, signed slips, and other extrinsic motivators to encourage conformity and obedience, all the while extinguishing any intrinsic motivation, like curiosity.
I'm sure the way schools look made a lot of sense in the time of industrialisation and the manual labour of the factory worker, but it's crazy we still shape students by that mould when it's so far removed from the creative pursuits we expect them to go on later in life.
“Signed slips”... our son turned 18 half-way through his senior year of high school. So I explained that he could now sign his own excuses for being tardy, and no actually explanation was required.
“Please excuse <name>, I am tardy.” <signature of name>”
If signed slips are ever needed with my children, I plan on doing what my parents did for me: teach the children to self-sign from day one. Their responsibility, their signature.