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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard exclamation mark being called exclamation point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In Soviet America...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not failing if it's on purpose. The right has been trying to strangle public schools for decades

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] ZombiFrancis 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] brbposting 2 points 2 months ago

We can do math and writing?!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

If he wanted to stop the war, he should has simply voted for the anti-war party.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ITT, guy calls out how we're all pretty well and truly fucked; everyone instead focuses on how he incorrectly uses the words "Republic" and "Democracy" together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tbh I kinda get it because I have so often seen americans on reddit say that the US "is a republic, not a democracy" so I'm assuming they're being bullshitted (bullshat? Idk that feels wrong) from somewhere and that seems worth correcting.

On the other hand the OP didn't even assert them to be opposed, just that people debate it, which is clearly true.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

People don't debate it.

It's something the fascists are lying about to pretend we don't need the democracy part, immediately suspect on usage. Best case, you're just a fucking idiot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The collapse is operating exactly as planned.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and people think this is a democracy or a republic

It’s both. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Neither have anything to do with the current state of affairs.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago

Inb4 "Now China, on the other hand, is a perfect country"