It has been a disaster from the start, but it got worse and worse with time. I remember reading that the schools would give the children iPads and other things just so they would sign up for that school. Basically they would bribe the children to get the parents to send them so that they could make more money. And that’s only the top of the iceberg …

(PS: I changed the title from “free school” to “charter school” which is the correct english name for what is described in the article.)

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    Don’t take your eyes off the fact that her party introduced this pile of garbage, and that the people who pushed for it then left politics to get rich off of the system they designed.

    Bring back medieval punishments and apply them to these corrupt bastards, please.

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    Interesting that she comes out of that system that she criticizes. That will be a tough fight for the school companies. I hope she has so much integrity as it seems.

    Luckily, Germany didn’t put it eggs into the iPad school basket. Observing my kids learning with it by Gamification Learn Apps, it has this bad taste of game addiction not learning.

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    They’re as bad as any other school in Sweden. Stuck in the 1800s. They’re just wasting the kids time with stuff that once was important but won’t be in the future they’ll live and work in.

    /father of three school age children

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      Can you list off a few of the things you see as educational time wastes?

      *Edit: Here,…in good faith I’ll throw one out— Cursive Writing.

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        Cursive writing helps in developing fine motor skills.

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          Kids of today have vastly better fine motor skills due to extensive usage of computer mouse, gamepads and touch screens.

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            Those are different kinds of fine motor skills than used when writing cursive. Ideally kids should be exposed to both.

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        Well I don’t know what Troed is referring to but my kid in the first grade is doing “Letter of the week” for the fourth time. (He learned them the first time 3 years ago in kindergarten). They also use something called Bornholmsmodellen that is from the last century and has been highly criticized for not encouraging curiosity nor building interest.

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        I love history, and I think people should learn about all of it, but if I had to pick I’d dump ancient history for more contemporary history. People need to know in detail the 100 years leading to today far more than the 5000 years before that.

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          Tbh if you love history or handling historical documents that might even redeem learning cursive writing.

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            I can read and write modern cursive just fine (well, mostly), but I often have trouble with historic documents. It’s not really that helpful in deciphering the handwriting of someone who learned their cursive over a hundred years ago.

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        Rote learning - anything. That’s 50% of the time currently - which can then be used to shorten school days with the same. We’re living in a world where information is available at our finger tips - and that won’t suddenly become less so.

        Every generation suffers from the same faulty thinking. “Because this is the way it was for me it must be the right way also for my children”.

        (Cursive writing was a waste of time already when I went to school in the late 80s)

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          Rote learning can be helpful for some things, if just to give an idea of what information is there and how to process it.