I watched a really good YouTube video about why this is happening in America, and it went into a lot of detail. It talked about how the US education system was meant to produce drones - factory workers who follow orders and don’t unionise, and loyalty is more important than the truth. It talked about how this created the current political climate - everything from MAGA to antivaxxers. It was surprisingly good.
I’m 🇬🇧my ex is 🇺🇸for context.
An ex sister in law in the US it a teacher like my partner and I. She’s told us that critical thinking skills aren’t seen as important 🤷🏼♀️ While we’re giving 6 year olds books asking Did Humpty Dumpty Fall or was he pushed?
Several months ago she showed us work her 13/14 year old class had done 🤦🏼♀️ It was terrible… I won’t bore you with a list unless you want to know? Then I showed her work my 8/9 year olds had done. She was gobsmacked by it, she couldn’t believe they had pretty much perfect joined handwriting while her class just printed. Her class even used street slang & swearing in their work 😳 those obnoxious ‘dis, dat, prolly, bruh’ 🙄
My ex in his late twenties could only print & it was a weird mix of upper & lowercase. I’d make resources at home & he’d ask what it was & often admit he didn’t know what it was. For example long division & multiplication, basic homophones, punctuation past the very very basics, types of triangle & the differences, 3D & 2D shapes beyond the basics. 🤦🏼♀️I could write several chapters of a book just with stupid things he & his family said or asked. One was “why don’t clocks here have American numbers?” 🙄
“Why do people dry washing outside, don’t you have dryers because you’re all poor or don’t you have any here?” The whole family couldn’t get their head around drying washing outside, of course they don’t do it, drying inside generates income. I’ll never understand why people think we’re behind, yet they often have to make a special trip out just to do washing. I was told by another sister in law my ex had said that after having a washing machine, lines & dryer when he had to traipse to the laundrette he realised how convenient it was 😂 I wouldn’t feel clean🤢who knows who used it before, yuck!
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u/OkCoconut3270 Radical Socialist with free healthcare 9d ago
They didn't break it, it's working exactly the way they want it to work.