Random trivia should not be taught, but cleaning and fixing? Next you'll want to teach morals.
We always have in many ways, but I catch your drift. I take issue with schools that teach kids what to think instead of how to think.
I don’t know if it is pandemic but I’ve seen some people complain about some very controversial curriculum creeping into schools. A person I saw on Twitter recently posted some curriculum their 1st grader was being taught which tells a story through the lens of critical race theory. In essence telling the children that the white kids are racist and need to work to be anti-racist.
It was shocking to me because it is applying controversial “Theory” that is very much opposed to liberal science ideals of falsifiability and injecting identity politics into minds that can’t even begin to understand the postmodern philosophy these ideas grew from.
That's like saying you're a great natural basketball player and practice should be abolished.
It's not even about teachers being good or bad. It's about something called "illusion of competence". Basically, everything seems easy while teacher is explaining it on whiteboard, but when facing similar task on your own, outside of the classroom you are completely lost, don't know where to start. Homework helps dispell that illusion.
An excellent cowpath right? "The teachers are bad, so rather than fixing the teachers we make the students teach themselves afterhours."