♥ Our children go to school to be taught by people who have absolutely no idea about what our future could possibly look like.
♥ Our children study for jobs that do not exist yet.
♥ Our children cannot relate to the mediums used in schools because their outside world is increasingly technological. Chalk/white boards and lectures in the classroom; fast-feed internet, texting, music and tv at home.
♥ Everyone who has spent time in school knows that they learned more outside of school than inside. We grow up and jump right back into the same broken system that we have no faith in.
♥ The system failed us.
♥ The system is failing our children.
♥ The cycle continues.
I remember the time my kids spent in a Montessori school. It was only for one year, but at the end of their time there they had learned so much. Time creeps up on us all, and later on I found myself looking at my kids’ homework thinking, “You did this stuff in Montessori with no problems, and now you’re behind?!” The public system UNtaught my kids!
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