How things change in one week! My daughter got accepted to another IB PYP curriculum school and my wife is now worried about how expensive such schools are. I guess we will take up the admission as it fulfills the desires of the child to go to school.
As for my son, he participated in the arts festival that I mentioned he was working towards. It was quite eventful as the initial structure that was put up could not last even one day and had to be replaced the next day with something sturdier. I was skeptical that homeschoolers would not be easy to convince about something suddenly because I presumed that homeschooling is pursued by a few outliers of the society who are assertive and strong-headed. But then one thing I had not considered is that they become quite flexible as they need to make new associations quickly, not having the luxury of a fixed large circle. This flexibility means stripping down to essentials in order to generate solutions rather than any fixation to an established precedence. If this skill can be developed further, I would be really happy as it would prepare these kids well to survive the 21st century. Yuval Noah Harari, a famous thinker about the past and the present, has highlighted this need to adapt and learn quickly in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG6WnMb9Fho
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