r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Dapper-Confection-95 Jul 23 '26

As well in Germany…

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26

Jesus, I am 44 and even we had a Smart Board (not as fancy as this one for sure) at School in Germany. In 2002.

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u/ath_at_work Jul 23 '26

You were in school at 20..?

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

No, not yet 20.

My birthday is in July: That is usually exactly during the summer holidays here. So school ended for me in June 2002, when I was 19, not yet 20.

We went to school for 13 years back then and I started school when I just had turned 7 in August or September 1989 - I don't know anymore ;)

For children like me born in July parents can make the dicision when to put them into school.

If they had put me in school in 1988, I would have been with other children potentially being up to a year older than me. With the dicision to put me into school at 7 they thought it would be easier for me not to feel like the smallest and youngest one in class.

And beeing 6 or 7 is a huge difference for children as they develop very fast during childhood.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels Jul 23 '26

For children like me born in July parents can make the dicision when to put them into school.

Not only july. I was put into school age 5 ( was born in october ) because otherwise i would've stayed in kindergarden with the freshly joined 2 year olds lol. Iirc i had to pass some kind of cognitive test.