This has always been my shit but has turned even more into my shit in the last two weeks: elementary, middle and high school students should learn an uncensored and comprehensive history of K-12 American education *during* K-12 American education.

If this sounds too meta, too boutique, like: listen. Your kid will spend 18,000 hours in non-college school.

Eighteen. Thousand. Name me one other activity in human experience -- church, parenthood, politics, sex -- that we do for 18,000 hours happily without wondering why/how.

Everything we do in school -- good, bad, contradictory -- has a history and a purpose. I keep looking for any aspect that& #39;s & #39;just there& #39; and I haven& #39;t found one.

Parents, students, and community members without children deserve the basic tools to discuss education properly.

I had to go through 23 years of schooling -- costing about $100k -- before I ever started to learn the tools to think critically about what we do in classrooms, why, how we used to do it and how we might later.

That& #39;s bananas. Why is "what we do all day" such niche knowledge?

(Crash Course History of Education would do a lot to change this country& #39;s relationship/politics when it comes to school.)