Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Social Worker Pretends to be 13-Years-Old and Enrolls in Seventh Grade | Shelby Hewitt Case Analysis" video.

@sibyl513 I can see where a lot of late-bloomers would want to go back "knowing what I know, now." Also, the people who peaked in high school. Early bloomers who were unbeatable athletes, in middle and high school, but they also stopped developing, early, and were no longer dominant in college and never close to making the pro's. I'm a late bloomer, and I had a painful shyness with girls. I've often thought how "unfair" it would be for my grown mind to be put back in high school, knowing what I know, now. A very few people wish to live that, but even fewer can pull off anything like what this woman did. It seems somehow less creepy, when a girl commits this kind of fraud. While I remember most of my classmates, fondly, and I see the value in learning to deal with "all types," when I try to apply that "socialization" benefit to my own (hypothetical) children, I kind of think we've evolved beyond traditional brick-and-mortar schools. I think there are educational products out there that can achieve what the public schools achieve, for a lot less money, and a lot less time wasted for the kids. If your goal is to train factory workers, then by all means continue civilizing the savages so they'll sit still while bottles of beer cycle past them on a conveyor, but if your goal is to educate them, the traditional lecture and classroom techniques for 30-at-a-time are grossly inefficient and horribly expensive. Save the group time for recreation. Invest in gymnasiums, running tracks, swimming pools, and the like. I think girls are more suited to the traditional ways, especially if you add a lot of group work. A lot of boys may not be suited for it until they're much older or suffer some kind of injury that keeps them from doing something physical, outdoors. And even if you can get them to sit still, they're not going to respond to group work, because they won't want to share their grades with group members who contributed little. There's a percentage of girls who are more "male" about learning, who also hate the group work and how it turns something that should be about HER skill into something political. We're at a point where it should be a golden age of learning, and you see glimpses of it, here and there, but the entire establishment abhors the idea of losing the cash cow and the control it gives the political class over the youth. Ha! Way too much. I'll let it stand, because it took me 15 minutes of free-writing to do it. Sorry everybody.
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