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yeah. but mention the impact of failing schools by directly adressing those affected will get you banned/downvoted etc.
e.g. i think american education has generated americans that have no wider education. they can do math and writing but know shit about geography or history.
say it out loud...die.
so are the schools really failing or is that what these people voted for in the first place?
Don't know what to tell you, but we really aren't creating a literate population here.. Even basic math skills are difficult for huge amounts of the population. We are absolutely cooked as a nation.
This is completely anecdotal on my part but I work customer service. part of my job involves resetting customer passwords for our online portal. We generate temp passwords for this to provide to our customers. These passwords often have exclamation points in them. The number of people I encounter on a regular basis who flat out just don't know what an exclamation point is is frankly horrifying. We definitely are not doing a good job teaching people how to write.
I've never heard exclamation mark being called exclamation point.
It's an American thing
In Soviet America...
so are the schools really failing or is that what these people voted for in the first place?
Yes to both.
With the caveat that, in most elections, there's no option that doesn't either overemphasize STEM or doesn't mention schools at all.
Just like very few Americans have the opportunity to vote for a senator or congressperson who's not an unconditional Zionist.
It's not failing if it's on purpose. The right has been trying to strangle public schools for decades
Schools are being transformed from a public service into a private profit center.
This isn't just a "the right ruins everything" problem. It's happening in Washington State and New York and DC as quickly as anywhere else.
Look up Obama backed Michelle Rhee Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools from 2007 to 2010. She fired loads of teachers, imposed an onorous standardized testing regime, and then committed a ton of fraud to fake improvement in classes that had been wrecked by her tenure.
Hugely hyped by the Gates Foundation, which has been angling to privatized education for over a decade. Her regime was then replicated all across the Gulf Coast as Republicans latched on to her originally "liberal" ideas of school reform.
It's not just the far right who do it on purpose. Like with society in general, it's also the center right to right wing Neoliberals who don't do enough to stop them. Though THAT might be on purpose too, depending on which owner donors the specific candidates are beholden to.
Just recently learned that republican congressmen and women, and more than likely democracts all have an AIPAC handler who whispers into their ears. If a foreign entity is pulling the strings of our elected officials, consider this country hijacked.
I think I've been one of the few people willing to say this.
I think zoomers have the biggest hearts of any generation yet. They're the most tolerant of differences people can't control, and the least tolerant of unjust situations.
But holy fucking shit they are stupid, and it's because our public education has hit bedrock and is still digging.
Public education has been an enemy of conservative values since about forever, but especially for American conservatives after desegregation in the 1950s. At this point after all the lobbying and carveouts in the law; religious schools get public funding at the expense of public schools.
The conservatives have reliably been met halfway at every step.
We can do math and writing?!