My kids hate school, how can i raise their passion about it?

@PrincessRoarBuddy That's a really good point you bring up, and I also wonder how this new curriculum will affect the future of education.

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"and not make people grow up to be like sheep/dodo's/slaves!" . what do you mean?

@HootyTheNightOwl You should have reported the gym teacher to the Sheriff.

@NativePortlander1970 Oh, I told my mother, but nobody cared at the time...

Nobody even cared that this same gym teacher could have busted a pupil who was raping and sexually abusing other pupils.

By the time that I went to the head to stop it... there were 30 known children across two year groups that had been raped or abused by this guy - all in school time and all on school property.

The school couldn't even decide if they were responsabile because some of my assaults happened in the school hall at the end of the day (after school club - with no supervision provided for pupils who remained on school premises)... and during lunch break - despite the fact that we were locked in and could only run so far to escape being abused.

@HootyTheNightOwl Then if the county sheriff refused to act, your mother should have notified the state police and state education department, that's how most schools get busted when the locals refuse to act.

@DearAmbellina2113 same

@therighttothink50 For a moment I was offended by that comment but a moment later I realised how funny it is because it sounds so ridiculous.
"Scourge of leftists totalitarian indoctrination" Like Adolf Hitler is taking over.

Conservatives get SO bent out of shape. 🤣

@Iwantyourhotwife no

@LordShadowfire Don't you think school is boring enough as it is without princess going there to ramble mindlessly to them? 😄

@MethDozer I never been incarcerated but yeah from stories I have heard or read, school is a watered down version of prison.

@NativePortlander1970 [quote]or they're just plain bored and don't feel challenged enough.[/quote]
The school admins often say that about kids who are not doing well. I think that is the biggest crock of crap ever. If someone is already failing, "challenging" them more isn't going to help.
Kind of like if someone is out of shape and cannot run an eight minute mile. It is not going to help by then expecting them to do it in seven minutes.

People can reason and speculate all they want - the fact is that school just sucks.

@CestManan Montessoris, also known as schools for gifted children, are full of students that were sent there by regular schools when they were assessed of not being challenged enough, I was recommended to be sent to one at the beginning of third grade in 1978 when a statewide IQ test in Oregon was done and I scored 148. The only reason why I didn't go was because my parents couldn't afford the tuition and it was too late in the year to apply for a scholarship. Later that year we moved to the next small city eight miles away, and even though it was in the same county, it was a separate school district than the one I was in, my new teacher refused to recognize my work from my previous school, despite having the same workbooks, she made me not only made me start from the beginning, but keep up with the current work as well, having to do double homework every night, which turned me from loving school to hating it within a month. By 6th grade I was outright refusing do do any homework, which pissed off my teachers, but despite that, I still aced tests and surprise quizzes, much to their puzzlement. So yes, many kids are bored and do poorly in school because of various things, among them is not being challenged enough.