Remote Learning is a Disaster for Young Children — Here’s the Real Question to Ask

Let’s flatten that curve

Thought experiment:

If you had to come up with a curriculum that would result in a generation of obedient, uncritical, rule following zombies, what would it look like?

Maybe… 4–6 hours of zoom calls a day where the main topic is almost always “how to behave on a zoom call.” That way, the lesson is to obey, be quiet, and always, always look at the screen.

Of course, screen time is vital to undermining the formation of children into happy, healthy, productive adults. Don’t want our future generations to be motivated by anything except for obedience and direct dictates from broadcasted official authority, do we?

How about remove all in-person socialization so that children don’t learn how to engage, interact and work with others? No… conversation and interaction needs to happen within the narrow confines of a supervised platform.

OOOH when kids aren’t on the screen, you could cut children loose to do make-work assignments they don’t really need to turn in, and that don’t actually teach them anything anyway. No accountability or meaningful work to focus on makes children quickly realize the futility of education.