The wealthy want to profit off privatizing the system, treat teachers like replaceable gig workers, and control the curriculum in order to hide their machinations and create ideal workers.
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Also weren’t public schools in the USA basically founded by capitalists to acclimate children to the capitalist system? Correct me if I’m off base.
Public schools in the USA are still anticommunist factories. Sad that people have somehow moved to the RIGHT of when I was in school.
Off topic, but my 6th grade science teacher refused to teach evolution in 1996 because it was ‘too controversial’.
To be clear: I 100% support public education but the fact that it’s not sufficiently right wing enough for like half the country is legitimately terrifying.
The US government not having a national curriculum for education means it’s entirely up to states to decide what they teach their students. And because schools get funding based on how likely it is for a college to accept one of their students (which is determined via sports and testing) the curriculum becomes nothing more than a testing meat grinder.
All of the biases students are taught are subject to the voting habits of the voting population of that state. If the voters put a fascist into the governor’s position, the Commissioner of Education will be whoever they want it to be. And that commissioner can teach students whatever they want, as it’s an unelected position and they only have to answer to the governor. US schools are capitalism factories, because the US is a capitalism factory.
In Texas, in order to graduate you have to take a class that quite literally teaches Texan Nationalism. I took it in 7th grade and it was so mind-numbingly boring.
With Texas, in particular, everything you need to know can be asked by asking a 17yo Texan about the Alamo. They know everything about it, except that it was about defending slavery.
Invented by the Prussians in the late 1800s. Imported to the US so we could have a more agreeable population to draw draftees from to fight European wars.
When you had to get naked after gym class in front of a bunch of other kids for the showers… that was so you’d be ready to do the same thing if needed when you became cannon fodder.
That’s a laughable take. Have you been in one recently? Pro-communism starts in kindergarten and doesn’t let up. Just because 1-in-20 of the imbecile college-of-education graduates thinks himself a Ron-Swanson-style Trump-voting realist can’t change the structure and the very idea that the schools were based on.
There’s the real problem. You think you have the right to indoctrinate the children of this other half of the country, against the will of their parents. They realize the danger in that, and their strategy is to take control of the schools and indoctrinate the children of the other half to their way of thinking.
And then the two halves squabble, winning this battle and losing that one. And of course they’re the great evil enemy for doing what you wanted to do them.
Sorry about this person, comrades. They’re a nazi who we’ve banned three times now, but they keep making new accounts with the exact same name only with a number added.
Please show me one example of pro-communism education in K-12 public education in the US.
They teach kids to share! /s
Children are taught that men and women are equal! /s
no i haven’t been in kindergarten recently lmao
Their endgame is definitely convincing people that public schools are dysfunctional and should be completely replaced with private schools.
You have just described Australia.
And Poland.
and Brasil
Fashies only have 1 playbook.
Insert shithole right wing nation here
The public ones are so dystopian why would they want to get rid of them?
‘You know how people can’t afford a college education? What if we did that for children too?!’
college is terrible in the states too
Tell me about it. I had an economics 101 class and half the time the professor was talking about how much he hated communism.
I’m sure you payed handsomely for the great privelege.
Still owe $50k 10 years later lol.
What a big f*ck you what they do to us. I’m not going for it. It’s totally irresponsible.
How are schools underfunded? Per student/year, more is spent than in any other country. It’s difficult to claim they’re understaffed too… something like 50-60% of school employees are administration and other support (maybe that should be “support” with irony quote marks) roles.
As for “under attack”, that’s not even close to true. Instead, schools are (and always have been, always will be) indoctrination camps. No one wants to attack that… they want to control it. What you see as an attack is just the fight going on between factions who want to be in charge of it. To believe one faction more virtuous than another is naive.