Our teachers have become less educated as they spend more of their college time in marxist indoctrination.
Alexander Pope really nailed this with The Dunciad
Just last week the government schools in NC took a rain day.
All by design. Stupid/ignorant/dependent people are easier to control by the government.
Government-run schools have no place in a free nation. Period. THE END.
Yup.
Rush Limbaugh alluded to this by stating today’s children that attend public school are growing up lazy, selfish, and stupid.
Unfortunately many of those students he was referring to are now woke teachers and woke college professors, and the downward spiral remains intact.
One caveat... this is an apples-to-oranges comparison. And while I absolutely do recognize how poor our education “system” has become (100% due to public schools becoming nothing more than indoctrination camps), but - I was one of those teachers in public schools in my previous career - and what I observed - especially after traveling since then to many areas around the world is this:
Few nations have a compulsory, “free”, K-12 education. Even those that offer it - not every student gets the same opportunity - they have merit systems and serious tracking of students based on grades, effort, capacity, etc.
In the US - thanks to the Marxists and courts - every student has to have the same opportunities - no matter their effort, ability, or intelligence.
In nations that DO offer the equivalent of K-12, most split them at a mid-grade into trade track or academic/higher education track.
Quite a few only offer “free” public education through a certain grade level (often around what we would call 8th grade, some earlier) - and anything beyond requires payment of tuition.
Toss in the GW Bush-approved “no child left behind” policy- what was really the final nail in the “no child gets ahead” reality - the die was cast. The dumbing down of America was set in law.
But comparing America’s education system to radically different models is a bent measure.
The REAL question: why are we not taking back the schools? Trump’s campaign statement regarding the US Department of Education - to close it down - is a pipe dream - yet ought to be a reality. The federal reach into LOCAL education directly correlates to the acceleration of the failures of public schools.
Form follows function.
Previously, the function was to create a resilient and dedicated workforce that would grind their lives away as dutiful citizens.
Now, the elitists can import the workers, and the citizens can be dumbed down to just keep voting for handouts and believe that they have any ‘agency’ in the social structure.
Hey, but give them a break ... at least they are woke and know when to use the right pronouns.
Young people are very pliable. They can be corrected in childhood.
'Teens' and young adults not so much.
Lastly, we need to bring them along rather than condemn them. It is absolutely not their fault that they were raised so badly. And it can be remedied.
Teachers unionized and took over education and nationalized it, controlling curriculums and text books and made everything a left agenda with incompetence and low quality making up the teacher force.