The Absurd Structure of High School

I have 20 new students entering my classroom every hour. The frenzied pace is failing everyone…

“The system’s scheduling fails on every possible level. If the goal is productivity, the fractured nature of the tasks undermines efficient product. So much time is spent in transition that very little is accomplished before there is a demand to move on. If the goal is maximum content conveyed, then the system works marginally well, in that students are pretty much bombarded with detail throughout their school day. However, that breadth of content comes at the cost of depth of understanding.”

https://medium.com/s/story/the-insane-structure-of-high-school-762fea58fe62