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Is this some 'murica thing I'm too German to get?
Combines the conservative hatred of secular public education with the entitled boomer hatred of the young.
read it more as a commentary on passive learning over hands on and thought provoking methods. although this rhetoric is likely often included in the anti academic opinions that seek to damage rather than improve schools, which you refer to.
I wish the Conservatives all understood that their more progressive values are progressive, and when right wing parties will say they are going to 'change' things, they just mean regress and destroy in abject ignorance of any actual thought.
The former interpretation of the comic is definitely important, as learning is actually tied to turning your brain on and interacting with the concept, more than no context single fact retrievals, where most of the question is set up, and your actual interaction with it is minimal.
Although I don't doubt a lack of teachers, schools, or general funding are to blame for the simpler methods. Not that I haven't had a couple teachers who didn't care two cents past the booklets they handed you.
So, your point is valid and important, but there is an important "style" of education issues that is also valid.
It’s Fox News viewer humor.
i’m surprised the kid isn’t black.
Americans hate the idea of paying money for someone else. Especially if that person is an “other.”
This means we can’t have anything nice because it might benefit someone that someone else hates.
There is a cruel and crude portion of this population that hates anything that might help the public at large. Public transportation, state run healthcare, the post office.
For many wealthy Americans spending $100 for every $1 of avoided taxes is worth it.
Now this would all be irrational and stupid if that $1 in taxes provided an equivalent service. So they have to break those systems or just plain make shit up.
I was educated in public schools in America, it was fine. I went to state university and obtained two degrees. Contrary to popular belief they taught us plenty. I had many bright and dedicated educators explain the world around me and make me fall in love with scholastic pursuits. Caring and driven public servants paid a pittance but still excited to share their time and talents with kids figuring out the world.
Whether it was an English teacher who decided he cared enough to run the academic decathlon team, or my calculus teacher senior year who made me fall in love with the beauty of mathematics.
The person I am is indelibly linked to the public school system. As a poor kid growing up in a poor neighborhood, education was a way up. And the wealthy in this nation can’t stand that. Success is for their kids going to expensive private school.
Not sure when you graduated but this is definitely not the average experience.
No one is saying it’s the teachers’ fault, it’s not. The system is designed to teach to tests (which doesn’t work for most and doesn’t work in the real world either). It teaches zero critical thinking, that’s the main issue. I was a product of a “great” public school and struggled. Wouldn’t have passed without being able to get tutoring after school.
My kids are now going to classical school and they’re WAY ahead of their peers. My 16 yr old isn’t special mentally but he is at least at the college senior level, if not higher in things like philosophy and mechanics. This is true of their classically taught peers as well. They all excel.
Perhaps, or too boomer
The GOP has systematicly dismantled the united states education system over the last two decades or more, americans are LITERALLY dumber now becaise of it so that they can be ruled over easier.