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In reply to the discussion: Why are we so "dead-set" on re-opening all the schools? [View all]Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)At very young ages, my 20 years of studying child neural development has shown me that in the USA, our curricula for pre-schools and kindergartens, and up to about second grade, actually work AGAINST what we know about child development.
We try to give kids academics from way before their brains are ready. And we skip over many of the skills that should be being learned in those years, and that make academics easier later. Many of THOSE skills are better learned without the kind of structure we are giving them in schools.
I would agree with you about the need for these years in school if we were more along the lines of the Finland model, which uses what we know about brain development. But OUR model really is diametrically opposed to what we know about brain development.