2026-11-12 21:18 UTC
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@jab01701mid@mastodon.social 2026-11-12 21:23
@Sheril@mastodon.social I think part of it is that teachers and school admins have been beaten down, starved of resources, and seek to avoid controversial topics like current affairs, political issues, even modern science, so teaching the basics from the 1950's is the safest bet.
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@djohngo@mastodon.social 2026-11-12 21:25
@Sheril@mastodon.social My kids are taking AP Gov and my resonance with this toot makes me want to cry.
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@croyle@wandering.shop 2026-11-12 21:26
@Sheril@mastodon.social A lot of people want their kids to have the same experience as them or as close to it as possible. I recognized that during Covid and a lot of parents freaked out and expressed an irrational worry that their kids would have a different experience than they did. It was genuinely weird and a perplexing thing to prioritize, but I saw it a *lot*.
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@jknodlseder@mastodon.social 2026-11-12 21:27
@Sheril@mastodon.social Same holds for stuff that is taught in school
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@taatm@mathstodon.xyz 2026-11-12 21:31
@Sheril@mastodon.social Quite frankly, we are still teaching them to be good Victorian empire worker bees.
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@tmstreet@urbanists.social 2026-11-12 21:38
@Sheril@mastodon.social I am almost 80 and I feel like we have not been educating people for the world that actually exists for decades.
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@internic@mathstodon.xyz 2026-11-12 21:46
@Sheril@mastodon.social In which ways do you mean?
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@Susan60@aus.social 2026-11-12 21:53
@Sheril@mastodon.social As a former high school teacher, I can honestly say that the most important skill I focussed on developing was critical thinking, followed by the ability to formulate an argument and support it with valid evidence. The development of AI is preventing that in today’s schools, and probably undoing it amongst my old students.
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@sbrudenell@mastodon.social 2026-11-12 22:09
@Sheril@mastodon.social parent too I take pains to recreate the tech world I grew up in for my kids, because I encountered tech as a continuum of composable tools that were easily understood and did what you tell them. today's tech world is a small number of magic black boxes, subject to distant gatekeepers I educate my kids about the world I grew up in, because learning about the modern world is leaning the wrong lessons
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@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science 2026-11-12 22:11
@Sheril@mastodon.social It’s the same world, the only thing changing is who occupies it and what they do. Good educators use both the past and the present to teach students *how* to think, not *what* think. The hard job for parents is to ensure their children get *good* educators!
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@OWOP@mastodon.world 2026-11-12 22:17
@Sheril@mastodon.social Teach others the knowledge of things you know and allow them to discover the power of learning that made you able to know of these things. *I used to wonder about that too. Watching my kids go through school and then the grandlings being home schooled I've come to understand that public schools are a social construct that assists in stabilizing the progress of society by not mirroring current trends yet still help children to understand the skills of learning. Peace.
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@diogdabsur@mastodon.social 2026-11-12 22:37
@Sheril@mastodon.social Probably because legislation evolves more slowly than technology.
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@babyalligator@chattrbx.com 2026-11-12 22:58
@Sheril@mastodon.social high school teacher here, and i’m curious to know more — what are schools focusing on that you believe is obsolete?
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@JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social 2026-11-12 23:20
@Sheril@mastodon.social I have 2 kids who have just started high school. As I posted earlier this week on here, I am glad they both enjoy learning about philosophy, religion and ethics…and I say that as an atheist. I want them to have critical thinking skills, to question the morality of the AI slop they are fed, to think about people rather than just STEM which focuses on numbers,tech, money and learning scientific facts by rote (both kids sad that science has been copying not experiments)
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@ZDL@mstdn.social 2026-11-12 23:32
@Sheril@mastodon.social The same reason that generals plan for the last war. It's all we know.
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@ArthurGron@mastodon.social 2026-11-12 23:52
@Sheril@mastodon.social Schools should double as community maker spaces. Get groups of interested people building things.
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@danielsreichenbach@mastodon.world 2026-11-13 01:43
@Sheril@mastodon.social mainly because supporting an adaptive, inclusive school system is not on the agenda of most governments and sadly parents are not fighting enough for this as well.
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@AnarchistLakeland@mastodon.social 2026-11-13 04:42
@Sheril@mastodon.social Remember, daycare comes before school, discipline comes before education. As a current member of the US school system, I feel like I am taught to behave and prevented from wondering. It is a system of normalizing power dynamics at a young age and then keeping people on the brink of getting mad for as long as possible. Every time liberty is requested, choices are given. Students are given a little bits of agency at a time to prevent them from boiling over. We need to stop listening.