Jess, I absolutely agree with you. Communities that offer "school choice" are first, stacking the deck against guaranteed public education at taxpayer expense; and, second, offering to substitute inferior, biased, slanted, conspiracy-theory rife and religiously slanted education that does not meet state standards - again, at taxpayer exp…
Jess, I absolutely agree with you. Communities that offer "school choice" are first, stacking the deck against guaranteed public education at taxpayer expense; and, second, offering to substitute inferior, biased, slanted, conspiracy-theory rife and religiously slanted education that does not meet state standards - again, at taxpayer expense. People are ALREADY abysmally educated - maybe from not being coerced into paying attention to lessons, maybe from learning disabilities, maybe a combination. But I find it appalling that there is such a lack of understanding of English, civics, history, ethics and economics in Americans at this point in time. Reading tales of folks asking what tarriffs are, a lack of understanding of how cons and grifts operate, a broad lack of understanding of basic morality and ethics and oligarchy is chilling. Our country's children need and deserve quality educations to keep up in life and keep up in the world. They cannot afford to be lackadaisical about their education and the opportunities a quality education provides to them.
There are many comments in here deserving of many "likes", but yours stood out for me by highlighting that elusive "understanding" of the interrelation of topics. Communication with other people is really the heart of education; it isn't rote memorization. How many times does it have to be said...
Deliberately underfunding and undermining public education amd 'reality' tv are chief contributors, imho. It's getting more pronounced here in 🇨🇦, too, fearfully.
Part of a plan to dumb down our electorate that got its inception under Ronald Reagan and is going strong. We must fight it with every tool we can find.
Jess, I absolutely agree with you. Communities that offer "school choice" are first, stacking the deck against guaranteed public education at taxpayer expense; and, second, offering to substitute inferior, biased, slanted, conspiracy-theory rife and religiously slanted education that does not meet state standards - again, at taxpayer expense. People are ALREADY abysmally educated - maybe from not being coerced into paying attention to lessons, maybe from learning disabilities, maybe a combination. But I find it appalling that there is such a lack of understanding of English, civics, history, ethics and economics in Americans at this point in time. Reading tales of folks asking what tarriffs are, a lack of understanding of how cons and grifts operate, a broad lack of understanding of basic morality and ethics and oligarchy is chilling. Our country's children need and deserve quality educations to keep up in life and keep up in the world. They cannot afford to be lackadaisical about their education and the opportunities a quality education provides to them.
There are many comments in here deserving of many "likes", but yours stood out for me by highlighting that elusive "understanding" of the interrelation of topics. Communication with other people is really the heart of education; it isn't rote memorization. How many times does it have to be said...
Deliberately underfunding and undermining public education amd 'reality' tv are chief contributors, imho. It's getting more pronounced here in 🇨🇦, too, fearfully.
Part of a plan to dumb down our electorate that got its inception under Ronald Reagan and is going strong. We must fight it with every tool we can find.
Obviously, it has worked....