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[–] Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world 108 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Decades of stripping education funding is taking its toll

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

It’s worse than that. Everyone has been brought up to be a narcissistic consumer and they approach public policy the same way.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

That's not the issue at all. It's the curriculum, the no child left behind act implementation, and the overall indoctrination and corruption of a system of government that rewards the rich.

Most schools get plenty of money and just blow it on things they don't need. Buildings way too fancy and overpriced educational subscriptions to crap, instead of spending it on more teachers and teacher salary. The money is plenty there. None of the rich fucks get a cut from cheaper buildings and teacher payrolls.

[–] Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Stripping education doesn't necessarily mean money. The GOP has waged an all out war on knowledge over the last few decades. Hell Fox News was recently saying "colleges make liberals" despite the fact that all the people saying it had college degrees.

No Child Left Behind gas been terrible. And I agree that money needs to go to teachers, not admins

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

They use their money on the sports stuff because they can sell it.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You'd rather have uneducated strippers?

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

That's the best kind

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 41 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Idiocracy was the game plan all along.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 8 points 6 hours ago

It was idiocy all along.

Signed - a native whose ancestors talked at length and wrote down (or had someone else write down) how dumb they were in the very beginning, before there was even a nation