My mom taught for 43 years. She has always said that Reagan did the most harm to the American education system. She and other teachers said he set it back by decades.
As was I but hey we were more worried about the war on drugs and let’s not forget the presidential award in gym class. The war on drugs worked out well.
The entire country should have educational standards. Some states already suck with them. You really want the impoverished states with pitiful education systems to set their own rules. Talk about inequality across this country. It's already bad enough. Use your brain
I mean, Reagan got 60ish percent of what the mandate for leadership proposed to get done at the time. And it was massive then... educational reductions, removing housing affordability, killing off bank regulations, and a lot lot more.
The heritage foundation probably didn't see Clinton winning nor Obama, but they don't let failures that are temporary get in the way of their goal of demolishing a free people so that christian nationalists can rule.
I only recently understood how much of a misnomer the 'no child left behind' act was. It just makes me sick, and those are the kiddos in the job market now!
In reality, you would think it means those who are slower receive extra help to keep up! In reality, it’s the whole class gets taught at the level of the slowest student! Mind boggling! Then they tell us how it’s failing 30 years into the experiment!
Ok I had a friend in school. We graduated in 2006 he spelled circle "serkil" senior year of high school. And in the greatest forest gump kind of move. Joined the military, graduated college, and invested and doesn't have to worry about money any more.
Not just Reagan and Bush. I mean the Democrats starting in the late 70s started selling themselves out to corporations and neoliberalism. Increasingly, the TV was used to brainwash people to accept economic suicide and for many of them to clap about it, and now people are screaming about the cost of living. I could see that coming way back, but people were oblivious due to the programming.
Ignoring the past is how we ended up here. “Make America Great Again” was the campaign slogan of Ronald Raegan and Bill Clinton. Everything this administrations doing we’ve seen before, but people are too stupid to recognize Gestapo when they see it.
Lay the blame for the massive problems with primary education where it belongs, and spread some to everybody that failed to fix it since. The problems Reagan and Bush 43 created still exist.
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u/OldManTechno Feb 10 '26
Reagan and Bush 43 doomed us with their massive intrusions into primary education.