You can tell. It’s been obvious for years.
Since “no child left behind”.
Teaching became all about the lowest common denominator and no matter what everybody moved to the next level.
Fail kids and you get less funding, because you “left one behind”. All it did was make a highschool graduation pointless. And because it didn’t mean anything, college became the new highschool, except it came with decades of debt.
This is horrible, but it’s not a failure. This is exactly what the wealthy has wanted for generations.
It’s why Linda McMahon is talking about dismantling the department of education. They want a bunch of idiots too dumb to realize they’re being gifted.
A nation of slaves, irrespective of skin color.
Chattel slavery may have been abolished (in the US), but slavery is arguably still alive and well just in a much more complicated way, with a facade of “freedom”.
Most of us generally aren’t free. You’re “free” to quit the rat race and go live in the forest…? No. If you stop and don’t have money or someone else’s support, you die.
I mean, that’s the case everywhere in the world and always has been. If you go out and live in the woods you’re banking on your ability to find food and shelter yourself or you die.
Not defending the current system, but like, saying you’re not free until someone pays for your ability to live off-grid seems… silly?
Might as well say, “they say you’re free, but if you decide to shoot yourself in the head you just die and there’s nothing you can do about it. #WakeUpSheeple”
I just don’t see what kind of system you’re arguing for I guess.
Fair enough, my wording was too simplistic. But I stand by what I said, and try to explain it better.
Generally in the US, you have no choice but to own a car. It’s significantly more difficult if you can’t except for a few outliers like NYC (public transport everywhere but much higher cost of living?).
It’s very difficult not to have a phone and internet, and be able to function in society, finding and keeping a job among other things.
It’s extremely difficult to be homeless or live in your car, not to mention very uncomfortable.
Health insurance premiums whether you need healthcare or not.
Most jobs are tied to a 40hr or more workweek. Some of which don’t pay enough necessitating second jobs. Overwork and exhaustion resulting in limited ability to gain skills to escape.
Energy industry: try living without oil, gas, electricity, etc. it’s impossible.
- transportation
- housing
- energy related, electricity
- phone, internet
- healthcare
My argument, is that these are every day extreme necessities, and they account for the vast majority of our expenses. We don’t have a choice to do without any single one of these (without severe hardship or external support). This is how we’re pseudo-enslaved. All of these things represent billions upon trillions of dollars of profit that mostly go to the elite. All of these above, should be completely socialized/nationalized and have the profit motive removed (as necessities).
Free market capitalism is fine for things like PS5s, BMWs, yachts, mansions, breast implants, and gold plated iPhones. People can work to get luxuries. But having basic necessities met (simple smart phone, clean housing, basic transportation, etc.) should be part of a civilized society. It would mean no more billionaires.
This doesn’t mean people should be able to sit around, do nothing, and get free stuff. Everyone should contribute. Some of the most important jobs like teaching kids, construction, nurses, etc. get shit pay, while billionaires play stock market games.
Honestly I think the concept is simple. There’s money to do all this. It’s just currently going to the wrong people.
My states largest district is an online charter school/massive embezzling scheme. Self paced online classes, with a teacher that may/may not ever meet the student. I work with a client who just graduated from there.
They had no idea how to solve a one step algebra equation until today. Today we struggled through such exercises as “2x+4=8.”
I briefly worked for that school and had a high school student who had no idea what Christianity was. Really, the concept of religion in general was entirely new to him.
It feels deliberate. The in person/actual schools also suffer - students passed from class to class without knowing how to read or work with fractions, because it’s not even really necessary to have a bachelors degree to teach anymore. I guess it’s the kind of population that will grow up to vote R, to fall for whatever stupid shit the rich use to stay in power.
My only real hope is that the pendulum will swing back eventually. I at least hope that I will be able to personally take advantage when the need is recognized again, that at some point someone who can teach a high schooler logarithms is considered a valuable member of society worth paying a living wage.
And it just gets worse. Pardon me while I rant.
Here in central Louisiana, a state historically in the bottom 3 in education, they’ve now opened an “ag only high school”, obstensably to teach trade school and “farming” skills. When I was in high school ag classes were offered where they basically taught welding. At least that’s all I ever heard anyone talk about, oh and maybe some husbandry, but not with actual livestock.
The gist of it though, is now all of those kids who were in the non-college ag or business track can now take just ag classes, and it’s in a completely separate campus about 7 miles from my old high school. They don’t commute from another high school and I can’t imagine they have much more than a basic English and Math curriculum, if that. And a not insignificant portion of them will upon graduation go work for their families.
There’s also a “magnet” school (pardon the excessive quotes, it’s Louisiana and nothing is ever as it seems) in the county seat that seems to only be useful for draining off the non-sports smart kids… which might be good, except I suspect this is being facilitated by Louisianas take on the Republican school-voucher programs. Which if you didn’t know is a way to drain funding from “under performing”, i.e., poor, usually minority, schools.
So that can’t be helping any national reading or math scores.
Can’t edit my original response for some reason, but I just recalled that “magnet” school is a private charter school.
I am seeing reading ability go up in middle school. There was a huge drop as the wave of elementry year covid wave of students go through. My current students were in 1st grade when they were sent home and are far better at reading and writing than the group I had 2 years ago who missed 3rd grade. The group that missed 5th grade had more behavior issues. I believe data will get better as the disturbance gets farther away.
The school system is becoming dumber and dumber. They are blaming kids for the failures of the system. They are making decisions to teach what’s on the tests instead of the material. School is suppose to give kids options. Not teach everyone the same slop
That’s the point.
Once a stock price is involved, you’re just another line item on a spreadsheet; something to be minimized and managed as much as possible for the sake of maximizing profit.
You’re not a human being. You’re part of a collective metric called labour. And as such, they only need you to be as smart as you need to be to use the tools required for your job. Any smarter than that and they run the risk of losing control.
Ultimately, it’s why there has always been a conservartive demonization of the Liberal Arts (Ars Liberalis) and a large push to be the “party of the average joe” who likely goes to a trade school.
It’s ok Trump doesn’t believe in science anyway.
We’ve been on a nation wide teacher shortage for 40 years now. The poorest school districts are lucky to have 50% trained teachers. The rest are people off the street that could pass a background check. (no degree needed) Not saying those individuals aren’t needed but being an effective teacher takes years of experience and schooling to teach effectively. We have more OF models in America than teachers.
Lol explains all the anti vaxers and anti science maga idiots
BREAKING NEWS : AMERICANS STUPID AND IN RUINS
wow
Republicans: this trend is comforting.
No, they’re gonna weaponize this by saying “look at what DEI is doing to our schools!” or somehow funnel money to private schools and away from public schools.
A dumb America keeps the billionaires fed
skibidi generation is going to have it rough
About the fourth or fifth report like this I’ve seen. Always picking a grade level that suffered lack of school during covid. 4th graders are a recent pick. Seniors are a good pick too, losing out on 7th/8th grade.
Yeah, but if it makes us feel any better, future us weoll haven killed for scores like this.
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