I don’t know if it is a deliberate attempt to destroy education or a much more common “road to hell is paved with good intentions” effort. The fact is (and nobody disputes this) those of us educated in the 50s (and of course taught by teachers educated years earlier) got a better education than those educated today. Math, history, English, and science were all taught using methods that are rejected by more modern “educators”. I taught for more than 30 years and the expectations were always revised downward, never raised. It’s a shame really.
“road to hell is paved with good intentions” effort.
Probably a little bit of both. The problem is that you have doctorate post doctorate level sociologists and anthropology majors making something fairly simple, very complicated and destined to failure. And for some reason, they are stuck on “one size fits all” mantra.
It is as if an overly educated person, who has never held a hammer, is trying to tell a carpenter how to use a hammer.
Glass is half full: my son got a very good education but as parents we are engaged and involved. We had to put him in sylvan once. He is now in college studying engineering and doing very well.