Sunday, April 12, 2020

Easter Sunday and Day 27

In the list of things I'd like to see continued when we return to "normal", along with no more handshaking, air kissing and hugging of people not family members -- stores closed on Sunday.

Yeah, I know people who work Monday to Friday want to have two full days to get their shopping done. But, maybe another thing that will carry over is work from home and flexible work hours as the rule rather than the exception. Everyone should have time to stop and smell the roses, even shop keepers.

Another thing that I hope gets overhauled is our education system. Regimenting kids into structured classroom learning is not necessarily  the best thing to create well-rounded, thinking and reasoning, human beings. Instead of longer and longer, and more and more, school days why not offer more time for imaginative play, and more time for student-directed learning. Teach the "littles" how to read, then let them choose what to read. Yes, Math is important; but it can be taught in smaller bites.

Year-round school with 2 months at school and 1 month off would help keep students' attention better. If the on and off months could be staggered,  classes could be smaller, with more opportunity for individual attention from the teachers. Working parents would have to be more flexible, but school should not be a substitute for childcare anyway.

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