Well, yes, the modern schooling system didn't exist for millennia. But modern society also didn't exist for those millennia either.
The world we live in now is this one. In this particular society we're living in now, a lot of kids don't really have a better alternative than school. All the adults work and nobody is around to homeschool (and that isn't going to change just because you think it should). The covid measures may have resulted in a growth in homeschooling, but the majority of kids still aren't going to get pulled out and homeschooled; they'll just be left in school, and be even more emotionally damaged by the masking and social distancing.
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Re: Forbes article on the effects of Covid restrictions on schoolchildren.
Date: 2021-09-08 04:17 am (UTC)The world we live in now is this one. In this particular society we're living in now, a lot of kids don't really have a better alternative than school. All the adults work and nobody is around to homeschool (and that isn't going to change just because you think it should). The covid measures may have resulted in a growth in homeschooling, but the majority of kids still aren't going to get pulled out and homeschooled; they'll just be left in school, and be even more emotionally damaged by the masking and social distancing.