This morning my kids and I watched an episode of Sid the Science Kid as we were eating our breakfast. I don't generally watch this show, but they have watched it a few times. The premise is that Sid wants to learn about Everything! The perfect student. And his mother is very supportive of whatever he wakes up wanting to know that day. The perfect parent. And she takes him to school, where he plans on exploring that topic that day. And he has three friends at school (the class size is very small), and a cheerful and fun teacher who comes out and teaches him exactly what he wanted to learn that day.
The perfect school.
And it's so unrealistic.
Carbon goes to a tiny, alternative school. But even his school is not this cool. As he pointed out - "he doesn't even have to tell the teacher what he wants to learn - she's already got it all set up!".
A psychic teacher, a class size of four children, and all the learning resources you can imagine. Wouldn't that be nice.
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