Why your kids are set up to fail

Parenting is hands down the hardest job there is. Everybody has a good sense of what to do or what to say to their kids but no one truly has the right answer. Kids these days grow up under a different environment and experience a different social life, resulting in different expectations and values. TL;DR: it did not come with a manual. Now, if you think the schools know better, you are DEAD WRONG. Here are the reasons:

In today’s world where everything changes very rapidly, our educational system has remained the same for centuries. Our educational system is modeled to fulfill the needs of the industrial age, designed to produce factory workers. This philosophy of mass production and mass control still runs deep in schools. Kids are primarily taught to do 3 things: stay quiet, follow teacher’s instructions, and learn the exact same thing regardless of your individual talent. In today’s world how far do you think simply following instructions will take you? The modern world values people who can be creative and innovative, can communicate their ideas, and collaborate with others. Skills that are not properly fostered in majority of schools today. Furthermore, experts agree that the lack of autonomy has resulted in increased stress and demotivated learning experience.

2. Inauthentic learning.

Most subjects rely very heavily on memorization and rote learning. The curriculum decides what every kid should know at their age and we test them every month on how much of that memory is retained by giving them exams. I’m sure many of you can recall back to that high school geography class when we had to memorize the name of rocks and clouds, most of which you will forget a day after the exam, and they have absolutely zero practical use in our adult life today. Learning should be so much more than just simple memorization and retention, but those are the only things that we are tested for. Children are spending tens of hours going into cram schools and staying up all night to memorize useless facts. Snowballing into a very unhealthy relationship between teachers, students, and parents.

3. No room for individuality.

I hate to keep hammering on the same nail, but this deserves an additional highlight. Due to the curriculum deciding what every kid should learn, when they should learn it, and how the students should learn it, individuality and passion is 100% omitted. Kids came and exited the school without knowing what they’re good at and what they should be doing in life, the system simply does not care. When you look deep into history, there are so many talented people who failed under the scrutiny of the traditional schooling system (i.e. Einstein, Da Vinci, and Branson). Sadly, only a few were able to overcome these failures, and we have no way of measuring how much talent and potential goes unnoticed and wasted under the current system.

4. How we learn.

Each of us also have different methods and different speed for learning. Some people learn better by seeing, some by doing, and some by reading. Some are quick learners while some takes a while to get going. The current system does not care about these differences and expect everybody to keep up with the kid who can fit the system best, and when you can’t, you’re considered a failure even though all they needed was a different method and a little more time to catch up.

Taking all of the problems above into consideration, our team is inspired to be the catalyst of change to transform the face of education. We want to create a holistic and comprehensive learning experiences for any individual child by embracing parents, teachers, and experts to take an equal part to optimize their growth and development. 85% of a child’s brain development happens in the first 3 years and we better make it count.

Inside every child is a rainbow waiting to shine.

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