Just learn it yourself

Today we went out for Chinese food for Byron's 11th birthday. Out of the blue he says "Why can't the schools just give us the books and everything we need to learn at the beginning of the school year, then we can go home and read everything, and then come back and they can just test us on it?"

Standards based. Independent learning. Individualized. He could care less about socialization, Vygotsky and social learning theory, and group work. But there are some schools out there where this model is being used. Interesting that he thought of it.