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Originally Posted by SCION
Education in the U.S. has become watered down, sugar coated, and honey dipped simply because adults are too lazy to present non-homogeneous worldviews. I have a 9 year old in 5th grade and an 11 year old in 6th. I often give them reading assignments that promote critical thinking and reasoning skills. Some content most parents would avoid. It's gotten to the point where my 6th grader directly challenges things that the teachers say, unabashedly presenting a historical worldview that conflicts with his classmates and the Simple Simon textbooks. His teachers routinely say to him that's not a topic for discussion at this time. In conversing with him you'd think he is much older because he doesn't have a cotton candy view of life.
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I wish more parents were like you! Teaching children to think (as opposed to simply learning what they are told) is a most rare thing and a wonderful gift to your children.