Article on the No. 1 country in educating their children, OH SO DIFFERENT

High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework
a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no
valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is
little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids
don't start school until age 7.

Yet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the
smartest in the world.

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I have been a proponent that we push our children out of their child hood.  We create artificial fear in them that paralyzes them and stops them from succeeding.  This is proof that homework is not a teaching tool, that kids are just that, kids and should not be punished for being a kid, exhibiting kid behavior, and that the best fix for our kid's educational needs is to tear down the top heavy administrative layers and put the control back in the classroom to the teacher and the parent!  But there is the crux, they have 30 applicants for each teaching position so that they recruit the best.  Here stateside we are so teacher short (due to the administration's rule making and heavy handed treatment of staff) that we just need live bodies to fill space.  Our higher education institutions continue to churn out mediocre prepared "teachers".  They get to practice on our kids and the stats tell us that they either wash out in the next 2 - 3 years or stick if out but do not hit a groove of teaching ability until 6 - 7 years on the job.  That means how many kids were not getting an education while the teacher learned how to be a teacher?  We have to reform our educational system and it is quite apparant that the educational field is not willing to create that change so it is up to usparents who are going to have to get it done.  So let's roll up our sleeves and get going!