>>53579372Would be interesting to hear how things are elsewhere. I hear all the time about how harsh it is in several Asian countries and how much misery that brings, but without hearing it organically from people who lived it it's hard to know what's real and what's sensationalist clickbait, nor is there ever any mention of how effectively they learn from those methods by comparison. It's always either praising them for not being lazy and saying we should be adopting their work ethic or criticizing the mental toll it takes on people and saying we should pity them/be glad that's not us while ignoring how bad our system fucks us up.
Taking some time to review or dive deeper later on is good, but they really do take it too far. Most kids can handle more than they're given credit for, so they really don't need to dumb it down that much. But the good teachers who try have to watch their back that someone doesn't say something to a parent that's gonna completely lose their shit because "How dare you teach my sweet, innocent child about the real world? They are too young and that's inappropriate!" If they gave kids an appropriately simplified version as a foundation when they're too young to understand the nuance and then moved on to cover more things then at least we'd have a wider general knowledge of the world around us. Then in middle and high school they can dive a lot deeper on the major stuff without depriving kids of something as basic as knowing what countries are on which continent because you absolutely must hear slightly different versions of the same stories about how this country was founded and how your state became a part of it every single year.
