This YouTube video features a discussion about fixing the education system by recognizing that school is not one-size-fits-all. The speaker gives anecdotal examples (a school installing washing machines to reduce stigma) to argue for customizing services to student needs and for pushing authority down to empower teachers to make local decisions about how to teach and meet students' challenges.
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I mean, I don't. I think what we're trying to do. And correct me if I'm wrong, you know more about this than I do, which is we. We think school is one size fits all. And it's not, because different kids have different challenges in different areas, have different challenges in different situations, have different challenges. What's the school that put washing machines in their schools? Because some of the kids were, you know, some of the kids weren't coming to school because they were embarrassed because their clothes were dirty. They put washing machines in the school. That's genius to me. And I think that we can't apply this one size fits all, because at the end of the day, the teachers know more than anybody else, than any politician or any administrator. The people on the ground who touch and are with the kids every single day know how to solve the problems. Like you actually know the answers for all of these challenges. And I think we need to empower teachers. We need to give authority to teachers, right? The way we do it is we want. We ask the teachers to give us the information up high so that we can have all the authority. But the answer is no. You don't push information up. You push authority down. And I think we empower teachers to teach the way they think is the right way to teach their children. In this situation, I think a lot of that just goes away. I think a lot of those become symptoms.
