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Rather I see this as a demonstration of the value of public schools.
Still trying to recover from the pandemic where education more highly relied on the parents and this is the result.
These are "government" schools, not "public" schools. We are all part of the public, but not part of the government. We are not the cause of this decline.
It's hard for kids to concentrate on things like math and reading when their main focus is on trying to figure out if they're a boy, a girl, or an animal of some variety.
Education didn't stop during the pandemic. It went remote and relied heavily on parents. Parents generally got worse results than the schools.
Schools here went to at-home Zoom classes. Not sure how that "relied heavily" on the parents. There were, however, two main issues:
Students from lower-income homes were less likely to have laptops to do their classes at home, especially when there was more than one child in the home and the classes were going on at the same time. The schools promised to provide a laptop for each child that needed one--they mostly didn't.
One large school district here was "almost ready" to start the Zoom classes. This was from a local news story. Unfortunately, this happened ONE YEAR after the schools closed, so all those kids had already lost a full year. And many still didn't have laptops when it eventually did start.
The kids in the richer areas went Zoom classes about a week after school closed. And of course the really rich (politician's kids) attended private schools that never closed.
Almost like the state was picking and choosing who deserved to get an education.
Didn't a survey of high school students or grade school students indicate many of their highest ambitions was to become a YouTube star?
And when we compare them to students overseas, where passing entrance examinations for the top universities is like a matter of life and death, no wonder.
This was all predicted as a result of the lock downs and remote learning. But schools are also now indoctrination centers pushing woke ideologies based on emotions, not fact. It's a lot easier to teach kids "white people are evil and racist because that's my feelz" vs things like algebra. Of course, all that indoctrination takes away from the actual learning experience that is supposed to be taking place. If you spend less time teaching the "3 Rs", than of course students are going to struggle with that stuff more than children did in the past. It's only common sense. And don't some of these teachers claim "math is racist"???
Of course, it's been explained that Marxists don't want high functioning thinkers. They especially don't want critical thinkers. I don't think they consider these results troubling. More like everything going according to their plan. Churn out dummies who will be dependent on the state, and they will vote for democrats all their life. The teacher's union is probably thrilled. Isn't socialism fun???
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