Joel Kim Booster

No one was managing the schooling of that we were doing.

I was getting the answers for all my math homework, quote unquote, from the back of the book during the day when my parents were at work.

And

Luckily, I really love to read and that's the only reason I was able to transition into public school and not be light years behind was because I was an avid reader, was writing and would sort of sit with my history textbook and just read it like a book and was never asked to write a paper until I was maybe a sophomore in high school when they transitioned me to online schooling.

But yeah, I remember the first time I ever had to write a paper was maybe when I was a freshman or a sophomore in high school.

And I did not know how to do it.

It was a big learning curve.

So I would not do it that way.

I will say looking at the landscape of education today.

It's something we think about, my husband and I, because I have a growing distrust of the education system in this country.

And just the fact that they stopped teaching kids phonics until recently is crazy to me.

I have a friend who works in education in San Francisco, and she works at a really great school.

half of her you know most of her eighth grade boys are reading at a second grade level you know and this is not like an like uh you know underfunded you know underprivileged school this is like a like uh you have to test to get in sort of school and still they're not they they're not learning how to read they're letting ai write all their papers um they're experiencing school and so like we have a whole generation coming up that can't read or write we're cooked and

And I don't know that I want to introduce my kids into that system.

My husband did Montessori and he is a genius because of it.

So we thought about that.

But yeah, it's really bleak, I think, the state of education right now.

And also, I think the amount of time that we ask kids to spend in school is wild.

I mean, it was wild when I was going to school.

I would wake up at like 4.45 to get ready to go to school at 7 and then have an extracurricular rehearsal before school and then stuff after school and then a whole course load of homework to do.