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@DocScranton @baraposter @disclosetv @Twoinchdestroya @graf @coolboymew @jeffcliff It's not even just racial issues, it's school being a system of making you conform and do "homework" daily for no reason, sucking the soul out of your childhood so you too can also be a wagie or cartoon watcher. Maybe doped up on pills too.
One of my old zoomer tiktok coworkers was telling me in detail about how his childhood was I shit you not, endless cocktails of Rx drugs.
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@Pawlicker I used to be a camp counselor for 10 years, my theory is that children's need for stimulation and just moving around a lot doesn't sit well with the overall school model of conformity and repetition. Seldom are you taught to form your own opinions, your own theories, to really ask WHY things are the way they are. If you are, it's probably in a university philosophy course. I worked at both a language immersion camp (French), as well as a camp for children who are on the spectrum or something similar. Shockingly, kids did a lot better at picking up the "boring" concepts (for example, the verbs conjugated with être rather than with avoir) when it wasn't just sitting in a classroom, but rather stuff they'd use in daily life. It's almost as if there's a connection there.
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@baraposter @Pawlicker @disclosetv @Twoinchdestroya @graf @DocScranton @jeffcliff I still heavily work like that
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@Pawlicker We presented the kids with realistic, age-appropriate scenarios that they would encounter in a francophone country/area on a regular basis. For example with the upper beginner kids, we'd have them order a pizza from the kitchen and it would get delivered.
This covers:
- lower-intermediate/upper-beginner vocabulary and sentence structure
- numbers and prices
- times (eg. your pizza will be ready at 2:15pm. How long until then?)
Unsurprisingly to anyone who has met children, this works a lot better than an exam paper.
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@coolboymew The amount of people who I've talked to who genuinely grew to like subjects they hated in school (literature, history, art, math, etc.) once they became adults is shockingly high. My sister is an artist, she LOATHED art classes, even in university she hated them. Now she's an artist and she makes more than me, funny how that works. @Pawlicker @disclosetv @Twoinchdestroya @graf @DocScranton @jeffcliff
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