My children are smart. Unfortunately, this means the schools do not know what to do with them.
Why?
Because schools cannot afford to educate the child. Instead, they must meet minimum test scores. My children meet those test scores without instruction, so they receive no instruction.
It's quite simple really.
As a result, school is very similar to the military, or a factory. Come in, learn your role, do your role, go home.
There is no room for thinking. There is no room for learning beyond the curriculum.
How can America innovate if we never learn anything new?
We cannot. We can only be workers. Slaves to corporate interests.
My 12 year-old created this one afternoon out of two broken laptops and plans to load it with Linux =P
He is a genius by IQ tests. He also nearly failed 6th grade, despite 'meeting competencies'
Congratulations, your son learned nothing this year!
I can continue sending him to school, where he will learn how to properly do homework and take computerized tests, or I can home school him where he could think of a way to build eco-friendly technology.
As a parent, the decision is clear, but what about the other children that are falling through the cracks? What about the millions of bright minds whose parents don't have the time to notice?
If we continue on this track of public education, we will have a generation of sheeple, who retweet what their told and are afraid to dream. How is that even remotely okay?