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Education

elleng

(135,773 posts) Fri Sep 9, 2016, 11:53 AM Sep 2016

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What If High School Were More Like Kindergarten? (Original Post) elleng Sep 2016 OP

Excellent! sense Sep 2016 #1

what if kindergarten was more like high school, or college. mopinko Sep 2016 #2

That's how my daughter(s) are doing it (I hope.) elleng Sep 2016 #3

High school was like kindergarten Astraea Feb 2017 #4

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1. Excellent!

Fri Sep 9, 2016, 12:55 PM

Sep 2016

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2. what if kindergarten was more like high school, or college.

Fri Sep 9, 2016, 02:07 PM

Sep 2016

what if they got to follow their curiosity, and work those muscles of exploration and self education.
that's how we did it .

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3. That's how my daughter(s) are doing it (I hope.)

Fri Sep 9, 2016, 02:58 PM

Sep 2016

On the 'farm,' at the beach, exploring/repairing, etc etc etc.

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4. High school was like kindergarten

Sat Feb 4, 2017, 08:19 PM

Feb 2017

for me - the teachers were paid to babysit.

My apologies to kindergarten teachers. From what I remember of kindergarten, not much was taught to us.