A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims hеr camera аt thе high-stakes, high-pressure culture thаt hаѕ invaded ουr schools аnd ουr children’s lives. Rасе tο Nowhere points tο thе ѕіlеnt epidemic іn ουr schools: cheating hаѕ become commonplace; students аrе disengaged; stress-related illness аnd depression аrе rampant; аnd many young people arrive аt college аnd thе workplace unprepared аnd uninspired. Rасе tο Nowhere іѕ a call tο action fοr families, educators, аnd policy makers tο challenge current assumptions οn hοw tο best prepare thе youth οf America tο become healthy, brіght, contributing аnd leading citizens.
Where can I watch this please?
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I say this, and I know I’ll down-voted and flagged, but I say this as a college student pulling a 4. 0 GPA.
Learn to schedule, people. It’s a skill that you’re all apparently too stupid to grasp. Learn that not everything needs to be done, that some things are optional and most of all, that none of it matters anyway.
I expect you to be happy. I want you to defy any thing or anyone who tells you that personal happiness is not the whole point. I want you to find things that you enjoy, and do them obsessively. I want you to take over the job of any fool who tries to tell you to just shut up and obey, and fire yourself. Find a better way. We live in a world of vast opportunity and resources. Go and change the way we use them. Do not ask permission. It is YOUR world. Make new rules. I believe in you.
as students, we’re not expected to be happy. we’re expected to follow, to jump when they say jump, to do as our teacher says just because they’re our teacher. they say we’re learning, but all we’re doing is memorizing. and that makes me sad.
I apologize if someone else has pointed this out already.
Mass schooling DOES exactly what it was designed to do. And it does it VERY WELL. Here is a few points, not in order necessarily.
1) kill the natural love of learning; compare a toddler to a school kid
2) break kids into accepting authority from people they don’t know or respect
3) mold them into believing their self-worth comes from outside, teachers, exams,. .
Most importantly: stopping kids from thinking.
We serve the elite.
is there a way to see this online
We have developed techniques so we appear to be. rather than truly being. I founded a school K-8, the students leaned math on an abacus – they learned the value of numbers; they learned 72 sounds – not the letters. This gave them real knowledge not symbols of knowledge. K-4 laid the foundation; 5-8 we did high school. 8th graders tested at college level in EACH subject area all for $3,000 a year. It can be done. We only held school 4 days a week, 5 hours a day. It’s not complex.
@251162efw That’s perfectly logical, the government schools are doing a terrible job so the solution is to close down the private schools which are doing a good job. . .
Important issue with no real solution given that the elite of society are not adversely affected. Offer fewer subjects, end school at 2, coordinate homework better, boycott private universities (corporations) and create more and better public ones. Cooperation, not competition.
Hopeless. America’s own values make it implode, violently.
yeah!!!! one of the biggest topics surrounding our societies today. CAPITALISM is not working!!! One has to inspire to something besides ficticious paper that some “bank” calls legal tender.
Looks fantastic~ my kids do 2 hours of homework a night and have been since first grade (now in third)~ I noticed they don’t have much time to go outside