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   📚 natalie 📒 (paparatti@phire.place)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 09:59:42 JST 📚 natalie 📒

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   • wicker boyfriend

   @clacke @checkervest and they also have art class, where those muscles are being worked in some way. It's just not a huge focus now to write a lot on paper. It's more about thinking, I guess? Like, giving kids the tools to think, break complex ideas down and express their understanding. I do think it's working. There seems to be a lot of support/understanding within the classroom peer group and not much conflict/bullying.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 09:59:41 JST clacke

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     • wicker boyfriend

     @paparatti @checkervest We're in Hong Kong, which is decades behind for both British and Chinese reasons.

     They don't teach thinking, it's all vocabulary, math problems, general studies facts, ridiculous amounts of homework and art, which they manage to make the kid not like even though he is artistic in his spare time. Teachers are authoritarian and yell at kids, though less than in the Catholic school he went before (this is a secular school).

     The kids are not as kind as in Sweden, but far kinder than what I see in US films and series (exaggerated?) and hear from actual US people.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 13:45:17 JST clacke

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     should have had an oxford comma "homework, and art", the art is not in ridiculous amounts, it's an hour a week

     @checkervest @paparatti