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Originally Posted by nguirado
You have kids and you want them in a liberal school?
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I want them in Summerhill, but it's not available to me. Most self-declared "liberals" (and all media-identified "liberals") are far more reactionary and dogmatic than I am.
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So, students in California are more knowledgeable? Going from a conservative emphasis to a liberal emphasis (that's what we're talking about here, not about light versus darkness) makes kids smarter about history?
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"More knowledgeable?" Probably not, in the sense of "knows more specific facts." But more able to understand the context of the facts they learn, more able to consider how to apply those facts to different situations, more aware that however many facts they have, they do not have a "complete" education, just a functional one for where and when they are, and if their circumstances change, they may have to learn new things. (And I don't say it's all of CA that's like that; I am, of course, only exposed to a small piece of California.)
I'm aware that teaching tolerance and creativity and love of diversity and pluralism are done more at home than at school--but in this district, the schools don't directly contradict those teachings. In many more conservative districts, I'd be constantly telling my kids to ignore what the teacher told them, which undermines their ability to absorb raw facts and education methods.