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Why we’re still doing normal school — LessWrong

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Cross-posted from Otherwise. Caveats: My oldest child is 11, and I don’t have parenting experience beyond elementary school. We’re lucky that our local public school is a good fit for our kids, and we’d be looking harder at alternatives if that weren’t the case. See also: Raising children on the eve of AI Current schools are preparing children for something like the present or the past. I think it’s very likely that AI will shake up work, economics, and daily life considerably by the time my children are adults. The way the schools are preparing them essentially for 2019 feels pretty absurd to me. In my dream world, my kids would be doing something more flexible than school, with some able tutor to guide them at the right level, and plenty of outdoor time and visiting places in the real world. So why are we not doing that? One of the key benefits homeschoolers point to is that they have more free time, because a classroom is inefficient for any given child. But what my older kids typic

x Why we’re still doing normal school — LessWrong Education Parenting Practical Frontpage 85 Why we’re still doing normal school by juliawise 14th Jun 2025 3 min read 0 85 Cross-posted from Otherwise . Caveats: My oldest child is 11, and I don’t have parenting experience beyond elementary school. We’re lucky that our local public school is a good fit for our kids, and we’d be looking harder at alternatives if that weren’t the case. See also: Raising children on the eve of AI Current schools are preparing children for something like the present or the past. I think it’s very likely that AI will

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