Parental choice alert! Another attempt to take control of our children. Currently parents can wait until their children are 8 years old before required to participate in formal education. In 2022 an effort was made to change that 8 year old requirement to 5 years old but it failed. Not to waste a good opportunity for more control they are coming back shooting for Age 6 as the new standard. Summary of SB 5020: This bill will bring the mandatory age of attending school to 6 years of age. - it removes the parental decision of when a child should be placed into public or private school or home-based instruction - it is another step in allowing government to dictate decisions on … [Read more...]
Two professors created a course on how to recognize bullshit
Attending school board meetings, reading some of the materials from the US Dept of Education and the claims about why it's good to gather data on children in schools and sell it to private parties....sometimes you need to call B.S.! Looking north to The University of Washington we find this story. Originally published on TheOutline.com. The author is Jon Christian. Evolutionary biologist Carl Bergstrom and data scientist Jevin West have proposed a seminar on information literacy they say will prepare students to parse the news media, scientific studies, and particularly ubiquitous (and often exaggerated) claims about the power of algorithms and big data, which is reflected in the … [Read more...]
Stanford researchers show we’re sending many children to school way too early
Reposted from: Quartz ____________________________________________________ Parents wondering whether to wait a year to send their kids to kindergarten, take note: A new study from Stanford University shows that Danish kids who postponed kindergarten for up to one year showed dramatically higher levels of self-control. “We found that delaying kindergarten for one year reduced inattention and hyperactivity by 73% for an average child at age 11,” Thomas Dee, one of the co-authors and a Stanford Graduate School of Education professor, said in a release. Dee did his research with Hans Henrik Sievertsen of the Danish National Centre for Social Research, who told Quartz that the impact … [Read more...]