Ghana's Parent Trap

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🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Kids are starting school at younger and younger ages. This week, one country's bold experiment to change how it teaches young children. And why it had to hide that change from their parents.

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0:00.0	Every evening, after dinner, Herman Agbavore and his five-year-old son have a ritual.
0:05.0	Herbert?
0:06.0	Yes.
0:07.0	Herbert climbs up onto his dad's lap.
0:09.0	Come here.
0:10.0	Unzips his book bag and they start his kindergarten homework.
0:13.0	Segalde objet bilo da a ship like.
0:16.0	Segalde.
0:17.0	Segalde.
0:18.0	Shum.
0:19.0	This one.
0:20.0	This one.
0:21.0	Okay.
0:22.0	Herman the dad is 47.
0:23.0	The boy and his lap and the oversized t-shirt is his oldest child.
0:26.0	They live in a cement block apartment in a multi-family house.
0:29.0	They have a TV, some books, no indoor plumbing.
0:31.0	We're in a working-class neighborhood of a croat, the capital of Ghana.
0:35.0	Herman has been doing some version of this homework ritual for years.
0:42.0	He's enrolled his son in preschool since age one.
0:45.0	That is tired.
0:46.0	And sometimes he gets frustrated.
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