It really feels like we are gutting our education system with this kind of nonsense. It's so weird. We do so poorly in our education system, yet rather than simply doing what the effective and successful education systems and societies do, we decide that we need to change everything and now deprive children of playing as if they are some kind of little adults.
I think there's a real resistance against solutions that don't feel like "getting tough".
"increasing standards" and "raising expectations" are easy to sell. The idea that children need to do childish things is dismissed as too wishy-washy.
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