piseco (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} piseco) wrote,@ 2006-12-12 18:34:00 |
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unpopular nerds
Snerked fromqueenalia, read this.
Weren't you nodding your head in agreement the whole way through the article? The point he makes that popularity takes work, and nerds have more important things to do, was a new take on the situation, and it makes sense.
Of course you know my response: this is why I won't be sending C to public school.
The author also says, on his follow-up page, that homeschooling isn't the long-term answer, but that high schools have the potential to be every bit as engaging as colleges. This is absolutely true, and in many, many conversations with friends over the years, I've often talked about an Ideal School, how it would be optional and open and Holt-ish, available to all kids at all times, to have group experiences and informed mentors and expensive equipment and more, but never the drop-off, marking-time prison it is today.
So how do we do this??
Snerked from
queenalia, read this.Weren't you nodding your head in agreement the whole way through the article? The point he makes that popularity takes work, and nerds have more important things to do, was a new take on the situation, and it makes sense.
Of course you know my response: this is why I won't be sending C to public school.
The author also says, on his follow-up page, that homeschooling isn't the long-term answer, but that high schools have the potential to be every bit as engaging as colleges. This is absolutely true, and in many, many conversations with friends over the years, I've often talked about an Ideal School, how it would be optional and open and Holt-ish, available to all kids at all times, to have group experiences and informed mentors and expensive equipment and more, but never the drop-off, marking-time prison it is today.
So how do we do this??
