[FormerFRLurker]

In San Fransicko a school board meeting lasted 9 hours! The first 7 were dedicated to their plans to rename schools named after figures such as Lincoln and even Dianne Feinstein. Only then did they get around to actually figuring out a plan to get the kids back inside the "woke" schools. Study after study shows that online learning increases the learning gap between students from affluent households and students from less advantaged backgrounds, including many minority students. It is more important to them to avoid the appearance of racism than to actually help minority students. They have traded substance for style, function for form. Madness.

[kearnyirish2]

They are realizing (but don’t want to admit) that often educated people push their children to learn, and semi-literates often breed semi-literates because there is little mental stimulation. Not 100% of the time, but generally true when dealing with American parents; immigrant parents with little education often push their children hard in school so they move up the ladder.