The American school system, grades K-12, leaves much to be desired.

While its flaws are legion, this post isn’t about that. It's easy to complain.

This post is about how we could do better.

To be clear, I’m talking about redesigning public education, so “just use the X model” where X is “charter” or “Montessori” or “home school” or “private school” isn’t sufficient. This merits actual thought and discussion.

Breaking It Down

One of the biggest problems facing public schools is that they’re asked to do several very different kinds of tasks.

On the one hand, the primary purpose of school is to educate children.

On whatever hand happens to be the case in real life, school is often more a source of social services for children and parents alike, providing food and safety to children and free daycare to parents. During the pandemic [...]

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Outline:

(00:35) Breaking It Down

(01:19) School As Social Services

(01:50) Requirements

(02:30) Constraints

(03:03) The Sieve Model

(04:51) The Kids Who Are Okay

(05:36) The Kids Who Are Not Okay

(09:06) Caveats

(13:27) Constraints

(13:37) Political

(13:51) Costs

(16:53) Hypothetical

(22:07) Conclusion

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https://affablyevil.substack.com/p/lets-redesign-public-school-part

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