In this Top 5 video, John explains why you should consider pulling your kids out of mainstream American public education. He spoke with Michael Strong about the historical origins of our system, how that history has led to our current problems, and what we can do about it.
Michael Strong believes that you can start to understand the problem by just asking students. Most kids are vocal about the fact that they don’t love school. We’ve long accepted that as normal, but why should that be the case? Is there any other service where disapproval from its beneficiary is considered a sign of success? Maybe they’ve been trying to tell us all along that there is something fundamentally wrong with the conventional approach to education.
Michael has dedicated his life’s work to imagining and implementing an alternative to the broken status quo. As an educational entrepreneur, he creates high-performance private and charter schools across the country. In these schools, Michael puts into action his Socratic Practice, an innovative adaptation of the age-old Socratic method, which he outlined in his book, The Habit of Thought.
Here are the Top 5 reasons to pull your kids out of conventional public schools, according to Michael Strong.