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Met a family this weekend who sent their son to progressive, creativity-centric elementary programs. He’s 13 now, and they asked him what he wanted for middle school. “I just want a school where the teachers know things and will explain the answers.” Common and worth reflection
Interesting how many assumptions people have to make to try to make sense of this IMO your priors should be very low that: * 13yo is lazy * 13yo just likes complaining * 13yo yearns for compliance * 13yo is low achieving or low agency * Prior school was terrible in some way
Of course any one of these things might be true, but a face read is that good people like cavorting with competent experts as part of their learning process, that this gets *more* true the more you know, and that this preference is entirely reasonable