Hm... I have to perform some efforts in order to get my head into this as the school system that my brain mostly got taught with (thankfully) was very different. To say the least: It has one advantage having started with school in the 90s still. You wanna know why? Because then it still took time for the West German system to write new frameworks for the former GDR ones which would soon be abandoned. For example: I've never got to know that nonsense called "Schreiben nach Hören" or "Lesen durch Schreiben". Learned it through conventional methods, and qualitywise I think it's a good base. It even still helps me today acquring knowledge and skills in other languages. I cannot imagine what a kind of trashing the brain it must be if you learned it through one of the other methods...
Later on, as far as I know, they also made those new G12 A levels in this federal state easier for the years following up. There were a couple of things you could already get to hear as you were in the final year (with the new G 12 system) which the next one wouldn't have to put up with anymore to acquire their diploma. And I'm already outta this for hardly more than a decade now... So who knows what they've all made easier since then. Only thing I still keep as a reproach to that is: That way they've restructured the old A level system, they would have done the students a pretty favor to stay with the one year more to get through this. Because the way that I saw it in practice was: If you took it a bit serious, get yourself a USB-interface on your neck and put in the correct stick for the class. Because so much stuff you should learn in that few time, and then always you had to do any long-time task at home besides, it just fucking wore you out and made you go insane. This was no more any of this shit "Abitur for free with art and English as major classes"...
Well, back to yours - I'm straying...
...I guess I can see what you mean in connection with Greta. Who knows if she really has Asperger's? Who knows if her behavior and the way she thinks doesn't get artificially pathologized? (These days all kids with some brains strangely get diagnosed with anything quickly.) Your son wasn't originally divergent, he just only was cleverer compared to the average of the other kids - this partly due to you two (as parents) teaching him basic skills from an early age as he demanded for intellectual input. And this was artificially turned into a problem by the school system for whatever reason. It wasn't one to him.
Like if somebody demands you to take good care of something, and then if you really do that, he gets furious and shouts at you: "Damn, I didn't want you to take that seriously!". Too few is undesired, but too much is undesired as well.
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Hm... I have to perform some efforts in order to get my head into this as the school system that my brain mostly got taught with (thankfully) was very different.
To say the least: It has one advantage having started with school in the 90s still. You wanna know why?
Because then it still took time for the West German system to write new frameworks for the former GDR ones which would soon be abandoned.
For example: I've never got to know that nonsense called "Schreiben nach Hören" or "Lesen durch Schreiben". Learned it through conventional methods, and qualitywise I think it's a good base. It even still helps me today acquring knowledge and skills in other languages.
I cannot imagine what a kind of trashing the brain it must be if you learned it through one of the other methods...
Later on, as far as I know, they also made those new G12 A levels in this federal state easier for the years following up. There were a couple of things you could already get to hear as you were in the final year (with the new G 12 system) which the next one wouldn't have to put up with anymore to acquire their diploma.
And I'm already outta this for hardly more than a decade now... So who knows what they've all made easier since then.
Only thing I still keep as a reproach to that is: That way they've restructured the old A level system, they would have done the students a pretty favor to stay with the one year more to get through this. Because the way that I saw it in practice was: If you took it a bit serious, get yourself a USB-interface on your neck and put in the correct stick for the class. Because so much stuff you should learn in that few time, and then always you had to do any long-time task at home besides, it just fucking wore you out and made you go insane. This was no more any of this shit "Abitur for free with art and English as major classes"...
Well, back to yours - I'm straying...
...I guess I can see what you mean in connection with Greta. Who knows if she really has Asperger's? Who knows if her behavior and the way she thinks doesn't get artificially pathologized? (These days all kids with some brains strangely get diagnosed with anything quickly.)
Your son wasn't originally divergent, he just only was cleverer compared to the average of the other kids - this partly due to you two (as parents) teaching him basic skills from an early age as he demanded for intellectual input.
And this was artificially turned into a problem by the school system for whatever reason. It wasn't one to him.
Like if somebody demands you to take good care of something, and then if you really do that, he gets furious and shouts at you: "Damn, I didn't want you to take that seriously!".
Too few is undesired, but too much is undesired as well.