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REALITY Impossible to quantify, but interesting to contemplate.
After School Activities
Look at after school activities as the perfect model for school.
Unlike the first part of your day, it is completely optional, based on actually achieving something tangible and worthwhile, enjoyable and, most importantly, something the kids look forward to instead of something they dread. To add to this, because the children have sought out these activities they are motivated to accomplish them at a high level.
We need to do every day completely like after school activities and scrap all but the bare essentials reading, writing, arithmetic from the experience.
Why are we teaching kids Biology when they want to learn Tennis? That's trading in something that's great for our health for something 99.9% of us never directly think about. It's completely elitist and a trade off we should never make.
School is boring because our kids are being force fed information they don't care about and it's information that's barely essential in helping our life function at a high level.
After school activities are the perfect example of where we can make worthwhile accomplishments, without coercion, disproving the widely held belief that nothing will get done if kids aren't forced to do it.
Along with the traditional sports activities, coding, theater, history, computer programming and a host of other useful things are done after school.
-READ 6 COMMANDMENTS OF A BETTER SCHOOL HERE-
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