The Right-Wing War on Education
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Public education is under attack, and it feels like the attacks are coming from everywhere. In this video, we dive into the actual, literal conspiracy underneath the attacks on education. Along the way, I explore common ideas about education, debunk those ideas, and offer a hopeful conclusion defending public education.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - There's a War On
07:09 - It's Bigger Than You Think
12:27 - What's Their Motive?
24:15 - What We Can Do About It
32:04 - Schools Aren't Businesses
47:39 - Getting to Work
53:50 - Outro & Bloopers
SOURCES:
------ Documented Report, “Inside the Secret Right-Wing Plan to ‘Take Down the Education System as We Know it’" (documented.net/investigations...)
------ A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire
------ "School Books and Racial Antagonism," R. B. Eleazer
------ "School vouchers are not a proven strategy for improving student achievement," Martin Carnoy, Economic Policy Institute (www.epi.org/publication/schoo...)
------ "Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After One Year," Dynarski et al, The Institute of Education Science (ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20174022/)
------ "School Without Rules," The Orlando Sentinel
------ Vouchers and Public School Performance, Chudgar, Adamson, and Carnoy, Economic Policy Institute (www.epi.org/publication/book_...)
------ "Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories." Dana Goldstein, The New York Times (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...)
------ "Two Textbooks, Two Americas," Adeel Hassan, The New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/us...)
------ "Segregated Neighborhoods, Segregated Schools: Do Charters Break a Stubborn Link?" Peter Rich, Jennifer Candipan, and Ann Owens, Demography (read.dukeupress.edu/demograph...)
------ "A ‘Choice’ Grounded in Exclusion and Inequality," neaToday (www.nea.org/nea-today/all-new...)
------ "Americans' Satisfaction With K-12 Education on Low Side," Lydia Saad, Gallup (news.gallup.com/poll/399731/a...)
------"'Channeling the Mama Bear’: How Covid Closures Became Today’s Curriculum Wars," Miller and Paris, The New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/up...)
------ "Objection to sexual, LGBTQ content propels spike in book challenges," Hanna Natanson, The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com/educat...)
------ "Voters drub Moms for Liberty ‘parental rights’ candidates at the ballot," Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com/educat...)
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The Right wants History lessons to be Disney Cartoons and Ethics to be taught by South Park.
Accusing the "Christian right" is so 1990s.
Get with the times. LOL
@zoe_bee just got incogni and wanted to say phenomenal video, but this isnt just conservatives in America hillary clinton and obama are, and im sure bidens, a proponents of school choice
@@christinabishop7352You mean "WOKE Disney?!" (I'm just kidding, of course! Oh gosh, it's so sad that's "a thing". Cheers, friend.)
Education is the enemy of fascists and they're terrified that younger voters will crush the GOP federally.
Honestly the fact that US schools are funded based on the wealth of the surrounding population is cracy!
It's a leftover of Jim Crow. It further upholds the wealth divide between segregated neighborhoods that were enforced by redlining. It still contributes to huge drops in quality for schools servicing minority students, as many US cities are still heavily segregated.
Pluto-cracy, specifically.
There were some attempts to fix that, but the richer districts b'awwwed until those attempts ended.
Well, think of it this way. If you have money and the school your kids go to has crappy facilities and services, and you want to donate to improve it, should you be hindered from being able to support your kids in this way? It’s not always a “rich screwing the poor” thing, not directly at least.
Also, where I live the opposite problem is true. Our county funds the schools with the lowest performing stats in addition to the poorest local population more, and (to my knowledge) does NOT allow parents to fund the schools directly. This means that my high school, which has the best statistics out of the others, was consistently passed over for funding in favor of other schools with worse metrics but poorer populations. As a result the state of our schools facilities became not exactly run down but certainly noticeably older and less maintained than many of the other schools. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Not really, especially when I lived in the upper-middle-class suburbs of my county. But it did make parents who had earned their keep angry, with good reason, that our school looked like dogsh*t compared to the others when we were by far the best in the county. They were upset that they weren’t allowed to contribute any of the wealth they had earned towards something for their kids and their community in this way, and that their taxes did not go towards their own local community.
Are they mostly white? Yes. But it still goes to show that there is a more complex problem here that cannot be fully solved, and there are multiple sides with legitimate positions to be considered.
@@willmungas8964You are upset that your school doesn’t look good. And the other schools are struggling to improve the education they provide students. Those are not comparable. You also refer to yourself as someone who has earned his keep. But I guess a working class family in an inner city school district has not earned their keep? Huh?
"I don't think that anyone wants to purposefully miseducate kids."
Boy do I wish I could maintain that kind of naive optimism but I've been around these types behind closed doors. They absolutely DO want to lie to your kids. Not just mislead, outright lie, to serve their political interests. There's no world where the idea that slavery actually had net positive outcomes for many slaves because job skills or whatever dumb thing they've claimed is true but they'll push it anyway. As if being forced under threat of violence and death to learn to do menial labor means you're guaranteed a job after the government reclassifies you as "human." They don't care if your child is completely unprepared for adulthood as long as they say the right words and don't say the wrong words according to these rich people's proclivities.
But that's kind of the thing, I don't think those kinds of people would think of that as miseducation.
At least to me, they think of these lies more as oversimplifications to help prepare you to learn the more complex truth. Unfortunately, their idea of the complex truth is that human life is not particularly valuable and that you should submit yourself to capitalist exploitation and conservative ideology.
I think in their heads, their lies are just pushing back against the "secular misinformation" their children have been taught, and their fight for control is so that they can teach children what they perceive as actual education. Unfortunately, because their worldview has no basis in reality, it mostly manifests as just teaching children misinformation.
I think you're right, but I think it's incredibly important to distinguish between the Republicans that know what's up, and the Republicans that have no idea they're being bamboozled. The Ivy league-educated Republican politicians and operatives are completely aware that they're lying through their teeth. I used to live among the wealthy and powerful, and I have quite literally sat in the steam room with them while they laughed at their constituents for being so damn gullible. They know it's not true, but they're making $$$ so they don't care.
But the voters? The regular republicans that vote for those clowns (and maybe the new wave of Conservative politicians like Boebert. I think she's a true believer)? They don't know. The vast majority of them truly believe that they're doing the right thing... in fact, they're 100% sure of it!
...they just happen to be horrifically wrong on that (and just about everything else) 😶
On the other side of the spectrum, leftists constantly push their radical agendas through schools.
Because that's how you influence the next generation.
Both sides are doing this.
This is why we need charter schools, and CCTV footage should be publicly available. People should be allowed to know what schools are teaching their kids.
I feel like that line’s purpose is to be more rhetorically persuasive rather than accurately describe the situation. She may believe it, I’m not sure, but if I were making a video like this I’d probably say the same thing.
You don't even have to look behind closed doors - one of Reagan's advisors defended cuts to education in the 70s by warning of the dangers of an "educated proliteriat". The opinions of most conservatives in power has not changed.
A few months ago, Reads With Rachel went to a school board meeting to speak out against book banning in her sons’ district and saw firsthand multiple attendees from right-wing groups who not only didn’t have children, but weren’t even from her county!
Wow! That’s insane.
that is sad but increasingly common. the right as taken to shipping advocates for there side around from place to place to regurgitate the same points. I see it alot in the LGBTQ space as well
@@mitchellb4551 yeah because your countries are getting conquered by islam
What books were they?
This issue is everywhere, would you trust a fast-food manager as an employee if the manager couldn't make food or clean like you? No, of course not, they must lead by example. Right-wing leaders who don't have children and don't live in America should not by any circumstances be setting the status quo for our children and creating the environment they live and breathe in.
The three most terrifying words in the English language are "then came Reagan."
"Then Trump won"
🤢🤮🤮
What about “then came Kissinger”?
@@bloodywilliam3083 "Nixon met Kissinger"
@@lococomrade3488 well, that’s not really too terrifying anymore!
@bloodywilliam3083 True. This time it's ok.
This time, they meet in Hell.
😂🤣😂
It bothers me when people think the only value of an education is how good of a job you get. Instead of valuing education in of itself.
Same. Our late capitalist society doesn't value the pursuit of knowledge, which is incredibly sad. As if there's nothing more to life than working until you die.
*Exactly* why I quit teaching English at the High School level, after only three years. It was literally making me ill. Love of teaching is no longer a reason to teach, because the love of learning is no longer something we *can* teach.
That’s unfortunately how our country works in a hyper capitalist society. You are just a commodity that produces profit for shareholders in the eyes of conservatives
I agree, up to the first two years of college should be devoted to general education (not religious). I also, think college is career training. People should be required to do 14 years of general education and 4 years of professional training. Complete with on the job training. Trades should be high school and 4 years of professional training in a trade complete with on the job training.
@@user-nl9lf5bu2x I hated English until my second English class in college. Because I realized the skills English applied to other areas. I loved animation and found a way to understand that and critique it from that class.
if turning libraries into "discipline" areas isn't fascism, I don't know what is
"Fascism is a movement that promotes the idea of a forcibly monolithic, regimented nation under the control of an autocratic ruler. "
Point well made. You dont know what fascism is. Fascism is where corporations corrupt and collude with the government.
Straight up 1984
Fascism is “government controlled capitalism” by definition. As opposed to controlling kids’ behavior in libraries. Fascism controls through economies.
My high school hosted detention in the library. You'd come in extra early (before 7am, i think it was), and pick a seat to sit at in the middle of the room in front of the librarian. Then you just had to silently do schoolwork or think about what you did for that hour. The library was still open but other students weren't allowed to talk to anyone sitting in those seats before school and it was overal not that different than being in the library any other time.
I assume that's not what they're talking about, though.
I had detention once in high school and, just like when i got into trouble in middle school and got to not have recess while still getting a break, i didn't hate it at all.
The more you know, the less exploitable you are. That's why they fear well-educated citizens.
Nope. It's more like, "the more you know, the less exploit liable you are. That's WHY Republicans are trying to better schools & student outcomes" 🤷♂️ cause right now, public schools are leftwing indoctrination centers. 🤷♂️ we've all seen the proof, just follow GaysAgainstGroomers for a few weeks and you'll see a cavalcade of videos exposing "woke" teachers and their unapologetically TRANSGENDER agenda 🤷♂️
I wish literally ANY presidential or gubernatorial candidate from ANY party would strongly campaign for education funding and greater resources for our schools. No one ever will because of the reason you just stated.
@@1845net that and the money has to come from somewhere to do it and this video shows to many people won't support a tax increase to do it so where is the money coming from? schooling is not sexy enough to take from other programs to fund and this stance is only growing not shrinking
@@mitchellb4551 It's unfortunate but true. I always vote for taxes funding our schools, but I am in the minority. It would be nice if the federal government would increase the national education budget themselves too, but alas, this also will not happen anytime soon.
@@1845net dude wtf are you talking usa literally spends highest on education 😂
the problem with the right wing, is that they can be presented with all of this evidence, and be like "i see no issue with this"
The problem with both political parties is that they lack self awareness and will always be that way. America is doomed to fail eventually because we paint our fellow Americans as enemies. Most of us are the same group of sheep, following the orders of the rich and powerful, instead of utilizing our own thoughts and feelings to understand the true reality of things.
Some, yes
Both sides do that though
@@christiantaylor594 yes, they do.
Ah yes. Right wing evil
I wrote a paper on charters in college over 30 years ago. School superintendents told me, "Every time I lose a student to a charter or private school, the funding goes with them." And yet, few people understood why I was so suspicious of charters all this time. And I am so disgusted with our country treating both education and religion as businesses. God, I'm so sick and tired of the exaltation of profit over everything else in the universe!!!
Why do the kids leave for charter schools?
Its because public schools suck, and the reason public schools suck is because the government can't run things. So much money pours into public schools its ridiculous.
@@therattleinthebook397 the reason kids leave for charter schools is because their parents drop them off there instead. the reason a parent changes what school their kid goes to has usually been, since the racial integration of public schools, to ensure their kid is still in a segregated school.
@@therattleinthebook397 To run something is to govern. Corporations run things. Corporations are governments. The only kind of government, big or small, the American Right hates are governments that levy taxes and governments that allow poor people to vote. That's it. So, you're going to dismantle the administrative state, eh? Do you think you're going to run a nation of 320 million souls without an administrative state? Of course not. There will be a NEW admin state, and it too will grow heavy with incompetence and corruption. It too will levy confiscatory taxes. The difference is you won't be able to vote for it, and if you complain about your taxes, you'll get disappeared in the middle of the night.
@@HmmBearGrr If you live in a white neighborhood, the local public school will be white as well. That ain't it.
@@therattleinthebook397
i lived in what i guess you would consider a "white neighborhood". my school was 80% white, 10% Latine, 8% AAPI, and 2% Black. in middle shool, a white friend of mine's parents pulled him out of school because they found out someone in his friend group at school was Black.
along with this anecdote, if you had watched to about halfway into the video, you would have further information about the history of racial liberation politics and the charter school system, since the charter school system is allowed to ignore the civil rights act due to low oversight and no federal funding. of course, this is covered in the video, so you'd be aware of this, right?
“Then came Reagan”
Three words send a shiver up my spine and strike fear into my heart
Maybe the biggest traitor to egalitarian democracy, certainly a trend setter.
Glad to see that opinions are changing about Reagan. I kid you not it always seemed like he was supposedly “the best president ever” despite all the terrible shit he pulled when I was growing up.
One of my first exposures to the name was in Boondocks when Riley or huey was explaining the significance of how many letters are in each of his names
I wrote my college senior capstone paper about how Reagan's legacy is/was completely out of whack. That was in 2008, so I like to think I was at least a bit ahead of the curve.
as someone that watches a lot of Leeja MIller that made me smile to much
From my perspective, as a senior programmer and software architect, what I find the most interesting about pushing for STEM and removing humanities is the kind of programmers it produces. Programmers who obviously lack logical thinking skills and the ability to understand fellow humans and are far worse for it. Programmers who'd obviously have benefited from more philosophical and linguistic and social science education.
You are high who needs philosophy
@@poptraxx418 everyone. And especially the people convinced they don't xD
@@poptraxx418
citizens who want to get involved in the politics of their democratic countries? Trying to parse logical fallacies, engage in debates on ideas, exercise rational skepticism without a good background in philosophy is about as hard as building a house without nails.
@@poptraxx418 Anyone who problem solves, makes important decisions, or critically thinks. I'm guessing that doesn't include you.
Robots in human skin, so to speak?
Senate Bill 129 just went through in Alabama, which prohibits the teaching of 'divisive concepts'. The law neglects to define what a divisive concept is, essentially turning it into a gag order. How in the world are people supposed to learn if they don't grapple with difficult topics?
Ah so it's literally just "I don't like that thing you can't teach it"
@destroyer4929 Precisely. What's worse is it also affects universities in the state. The entire point of university is to broaden the mind through challenging established narratives.
@@thomasoates3003hey, if you live in Alabama, I double dog dare you to try to get basic math banned. I mean, one of the four basic functions is literally division.
If anything it demonstrates that conservatives are anti-freedom of speech, and a bunch of over-sensitive little babies.
@Nope-bl3ig Let's see if that works.
Just wanted to add my own anecdote about charter schools. My first year of high school, I went to the local charter and did relatively well the first few months. Then my parents died in an accident and my grades plummeted. I went to the school counselor and they suggested I be admitted to an inpatient psych ward!! Because I was greiving my parents! At the end of the year, they kicked me out for not performing better, and when I tried to fight it, they told me only "only extreme circumstances would be considered." As if being orphaned wasn't extreme enough. Ended up in the public school down the street where the quarterback was shot in the parking lot a week before the term started. I have no love for charter schools at. All.
I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your story, it's important to hear first hand how abusive the system is.
@@chris135xthey all have weird rules like this and most are for profit. I think it’s valid to criticize charters for shit like this
@@chris135xalright charter school fellater
@@chris135x dude the charter school literally wanted to put him in a psych ward
This is a pretty average experience in the U.S in regards to schooling. This stuff happens a lot and everyone is just “okay” with it!
As a teacher in Texas for the last 15 years, I have seen how education has slowly been designed--mostly via high-stakes testing and treating schools like businesses--to fail. The primary focus of school administrators and district personnel is the numbers the state demands that we meet. If we don't meet those numbers, bad things happen to us. So, the numbers matter more than the children, and teaching has been less and less about raising children to be well-rounded, literate, and numerate citizens, and more and more about how can we tick off all the right boxes. The scary part is that it's been happening long enough that some of our new teachers went through this system and don't realize that school doesn't have to, and should not, be this way.
And now, to watch the video.
It's been like this for my entire life.
I'm 38.
This is my 38th year as a teacher, and I don't really know how to fully express to whoever reads this just how exactly correct this individual's post is in every particular.
My art teacher has been saying how recently the admin would probably actually prefer it if she just gave us coloring sheets and made sure we just stayed in the room throughout the day than actually doing the actual sculpture curriculum. idk it seems dystopian that it would be almost preferable for us to sit there doing basically nothing than learning how to put together actual art and having fun.
@@goldendoodle252Art classes have always been considered an after thought, which is a shame because they are the few spaces where students can actually express themselves.
I always hated the public education system, but art classes always felt like a refuge to me growing up.
@@goldendoodle252Cause and effect my friend. I'm a second year teacher, and I see exactly what you're saying. I think in order to understand the issue, we have to look at the fact that there's a teacher shortage. There's a shortage because they've been devalued. Now there has to be multitasking among the staff and people hustling to do jobs they're not suited for. Henceforth, I have not been properly trained as a teacher. I struggle day in and day out to accommodate my students. The school is too busy trying to stay afloat instead of providing me with the resources I need to fully engage the students.
For people who are against government spending, they sure love finding ways to profit from taxpayer dollars.
For people against big govt and govt regulations, they sure do love to use the Fed Govt to push regulations on the Liberties of everyday people.
Can't even smoke weed and have an abortion after a gay Marriage without those fucks sticking their nose in my business.
Exactly, “lowering government spending” means “ I don’t personally want to pay as much tax, but the poors sure can lol”
@@ThickRedPaste the government is so great with money and definitely has our best interest at heart. As a poor conservative I whole heartedly agree with you.
Odd how the democrats resist republican calls for an audit of all congress members and executive staff...
crazy how so many have become millionaires while on a govt salary....
Except the military, spending on that can rise every year.
Education is yet another segment of our society that should be a public service and not a for-profit industry. Same can be said of healthcare and incarceration.
Health care and education are services doh
@@poptraxx418 Yes, they're services provided by for-profit industries. That's the point; they should be provided by civically monitored government.
Public service doesn’t work when the public stops wanting to fulfill responsibilities
@@meanmachine99999 It works in every other "advanced" nation. Why wouldn't it work in the US?
@@andywinger4197 Health care good but how would it be done? Simple answer is take money from miliray spending but that would require the public to stand up against the lobbyists.... which almost never happens.... so the way you would do it in a popular and voter friendly way is "tax the rich" or just INCREASE SPENDING which is just printing money.....
I think its also important to mention that Private Schools are able to fudge their numbers for academic success purely by the fact they can select their students while a public school cannot. If a private school wants to boost their numbers, they can offer scholarships to students that are already succeeding in a public school while expelling/preventing lower performing students from joining. This practice also ends up taking higher performing students that would boost test scores away from public schools, making them look even worse by comparison despite the fact that the student got to that point in their education from a public school
Tldr: Public Schools have to actually teach their students. Private schools instead pick theirs
Public schools fudge their numbers in LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of ways. You have to actually work in the schools to understand. But oh yes, Public schools are so corrupt it would amaze you.
Yes, while public schools lie about whether their kids can read or not. Look into the schools of Baltimore and other large cities and how they’ll pass anyone.
I used to teach at a private school. Regardless of my personal assessment of a student, administration gave everyone straight A's - because that is what the parents paid for.
That's a ridiculous thing to say. Private schools actually die off if they lose to their competition while public schools don't really have to compete at all. This fosters the environment where teachers just don't care if the students succeed because they'll get funding regardless. THIS is exactly why private schools always do better. Capitalism works, whether you leftists believe it or not.
Cope.
Private schools can fire bad teachers.
My mom was a teacher who believed that the purpose of education was to teach people to think, not to tell them what to think. And at the end of the day, that’s what this war on education is really about - if education is a business, then what it teaches can be dictated by those with enough money to do the dictating.
I'm a teacher and when I hear someone say "We teach kids what to think, not how to think"? Ohhhhhhhhhh boy them's fighting words.
@samsoneffect Me, a Philos Major:
"You have my sword."
But its like one of those tiny letter openers that looks like Excalibur..
>____>
And you don't think the same thing about the government?
I am also a teacher social studies. there is a big push right now to censor inconvenient historical facts and events because it is "woke" or "critical race theory" anytime i hear these terms being thrown around as justification to censor history. What im hearing is "we dont want people knowing the truth because if they did they might decide to rebel" and capitalism wants a slave class to exploit not an educated public that can think for themselves and is immune to propaganda
@@stevengoldsworthy2079 I imagine they do, not because the government is necessarily a bad idea on its own, but because the government we have right now almost exclusively consists of people influenced by (or benefiting) from the continued existence and accumulation of wealth from multibillionaires and their incredibly harmful and exploitative corporations.
Sounds like we need to establish proper democracy more than ever. The teachers are *more likely* to figure out a successful education system for their schools more than the principal. Sounds like we should let them have decision making power too. Same goes for us as citizens, especially for legislation that pertain to our fields of expertise, or affect our lives in significant ways.
Christian nationalism is terrifying. Not concerning.
It's straight up terrifying.
It seems to be a running theme that the people who are the most dissatisfied are the ones who have nothing to do with what they're dissatisfied with. Non-lgbt people being upset that we exist and want rights. Non-racial-minorities being upset that we exist and want rights. All with the same sentiment of "We acknowledge you exist so what else do you want?" We want the same rights. We deserve the same rights. And kids don't deserve to be brainwashed by religious zelots. Keep your religion in your home and in your church and respect the people that don't believe in it or want to believe in it. Just like I keep mine.
I agree, and ask christian nationalists to think of one thing: Northern Ireland.
What rights don’t you have lol 😂 cry harder you mutated sick fuck
But you don't keep it in your home. You have to have a whole month to celebrate your pride...?
@@MitousonExactly. I don’t think any politically oriented idea like gender fluidity or religion should be specifically shown in schools, period. It’s not about homophobia or being against religion for me either, I’m against none of these. Children just shouldn’t be involved in political discourse, they should be taught the mechanisms of the world not the opinions of it. They can form opinions when they’re more informed adult individuals.
@@restitutororbis964
Except ones gender and way of life is a basic human right, whilst religion brings nothing to the table. Children need to be taught, that these kinds of people exist, so that any confusion and discrimination can be avoided. Heck, it can also validate some children to how they feel. Gender and sexuality are nothing political, but basic human rights.
Product of Ron DeSantis’s outrageous Florida education system here. I’m fed up.
All the teachers in my life said “treat your education like your job.” Well, there are several things that are terrible about that statement, but if this was my paying job, I would have resigned by now and found a less crummy career.
I just looked it up & under DeSantis, Florida's K-12 Achievement ranks 3rd in the nation according to Education Week's Quality Report.
@@jennifersmith4864 If that's the truth, I'm terrified for everyone else. I currently attend a top 100 public school (in national charts) and I have to go out of my way to get anything out of the curriculum. To call it a shame would be a criminal understatement.
@@RaysNewestLow
Well, maybe you should move to Florida.
I go to a private school & I think I am getting a great education.
I don't know why we don't have competition among public schools --- oh wait, I kinda do --- teachers unions & left wing school boards.
@@jennifersmith4864 I go to a competitive Florida public school. The lack of pay to my school’s teachers is causing them to leave in droves. Of the eight periods I have, I have six teachers. Six. Some of my friends have less. Forget about school competition, we need teacher compensation. All DeSantis’ policies have done is make it harder for public school teachers to teach here, passing progressively more restrictive policies and taking away the little funding we receive. People I know in other schools across the district and state report similar issues with staffing and funding as well, so it’s not just my school.
I consider myself to be largely centrist, so I get the want to keep politics out of schools, but the constant barrage against education is keeping most people from getting one. I don’t care if it’s liberals or conservatives or anyone else that are providing me a good education, I just want to learn. The Florida government under DeSantis is failing to do that, so it should not be supported, at least in this regard.
@@RaysNewestLow
All I know is Florida is number 3 best in K-12 education.
I just checked teacher salary by state --- #1 is Maryland at $40K
Florida is #22 at $31K. Not bad once you take the massive Maryland taxes into account.
But according to US News, Florida is #1 in education But Maryland isn't in the top 20!!!
Education is the best tool to work for a better world for all. That's why those in power are so against it.
I'd be concerned then about standardized test scores dropping. Kinda sounds like something we should look into the department of education over.
@@allisthemoist2244standardized test scores aren't necessarily a good indicator of the actual quality of education.
@@pennyforyourthots so you're hoping that educational quality is going up despite indicators highly correlated with educational quality going down?
@@pennyforyourthots my guess is that if a governor other than DeSantis said they want students in their state scoring highly on standardized tests, you would think that that's a good thing.
However, education can't be treated as a uniform good. We must always ask, education in what and to what end? Education always reflects the values of society, and we need to ask whether we value conservative ideals, like nationalism and individualism, or liberal ideals like, well, nationalism and individualism; or do we instead value class consciousness and emancipatory thinking? Does education really perform a service when it's structured around means-testing, grading, standardization, meritocracy, and, for many, a pipeline to prison? Maybe you're aware of all that already, but I often find that people who tout education as the best tool haven't considered what kind of education for what purpose.
My mom is about to retire from her career as a kindergarten teacher, and my god this whole thing has been so apparent and so frightening. We're in trouble out here.
What thing?
right wingers trying to destroy the public education system and vilify teachers as """groomers""" @@ordinaryrat
@@ordinaryrat oh wow, you're just gonna ignore the whole video you're commenting on, huh? I guess that makes sense, since otherwise you'd have to make a coherent argument.
@@myopiczeal All the evidence for what rightoids are doing in this video is just a bunch of web article titles (worst source ever) that she takes as fact plus a bunch of asumptions.
I did watch the majority of the video. And I am left wing. This video just seems more like propoganda then an actual fair discussion.
Cheers to your mom! I'm a music teacher, and did one year as a K-6 general music teacher. That's all I could handle... Kindergarten teachers are gold. So needed, and such a hard job
Parents also want obedient little robots that reflect well on them and will care for them in old age no matter how much they use their children as punching bags. Let's not forget this.
Depends on the parents. Some parents are the opposite of this, some live down to the description you used or worse, and some are in between.
Pretty much.
Not all, my mum was horribly abusive to me due to her having me at a young age (15 it was her choice) but I’ve known some VERY caring and sincere parents who have and will sacrifice everything for their child to succeed. But yet again, I guess the good doesn’t outshine the bad
Yeah, what the hell kind of statement is this anyway? this definately applies to a lot of parents even well intentioned ones but no one should reach the take away that all parents are like this.
Hell i dont even think thats what op is saying here, rather pointing the fact any thay parent is like this is a bad sign
Ain't that one of the main reasons why there are so many homless in the USA unlike Mexico despite being the USA a much wealthier nation? No comunication, no treatments for mental or psicological problems, broken families, no ties at all, no comunitarian family. You can not bound nor create a family healthy dinamics with that.
Too many Americans are proud to be ignorant, "you just gotta do your own research"....**watches Prager U** 🤦
"That one racist/flerf uncle" is _such_ a meme . . . and yet, so real. Maybe it's just because of their lack of bitches? Perchance it's because they still live in their mom's basement at 40? I know mine does.
For the entirety of middle school and most of high school, I went to a charter school and it SUCKED.
A third of the teachers there were completely unqualified (not underqualified, unqualified. I literally had teachers who didn't have a teaching license.), and half the actually good teachers never stayed for more than a couple years.
I had one teacher who had Lyme disease and the school didn't want to cover her insurance, so they forced her out. she was replaced by someone who had applied to be a substitute the day before.
Our Spanish teacher was literally just an administrator who was born in Mexico.
One of my teachers told us a story that really summed up the whole issue; the dean went up to her at the end of a school year and said "So, Mrs. X. How was your first year teaching English?". Her reply was "I got divorced last year so I'm Ms. Y now, I teach chemistry, and I've worked here for eight years."
@@chris135x It is evident that it is an institutional problem, your sister's case is not the same as everyone's
@@chris135x Have you not watched the video? It has been proven through long years of research that charter schools fudge their results and their data to appear more successful than they are. Most are rife with corruption and horrible performance. Your sister was most likely lucky to have hit an exception to the rule.
@@chris135xand how do you know? You are the sum of most cases? Charters are quite unregulated in nature. There's a vast swath of schools who point to generic statements about the system as a whole, but again they have little to no regulation so what is the stereotypical charter?
@@chris135x "my anecdote is different from your anecdotes so I'm right and you're wrong" lol u fool
@@chris135x - Is that from selecting the students who are already performing well, or do they actually offer some tangible benefit besides taking on all of the students who were already doing well, and then having zero impact on their academic progress?
The PA senator who said something to the effect of "Why teach these kids algebra if they're just going to work at McDonalds" has been living in my head rent free for a few years now.
Like, totally mask off evil sort of shit.
Which is weird because to live in the adult world, you need to use algebra nearly every day.
I was homeschooled and got to participate in planning my education to a very large extent after 8th grade. I’ve been seeing Pennsylvania’s schools slowly collapsing for that whole time because my parents let me join in, made a special plan instead of using one of the ultra-Christian accredited diploma programs because those were so bare bones I couldn’t tolerate the idea of having such limits on what I could get credit for. The complete lack of requirements in all of them for the arts and a maximum 4-year credit amount of 21 was severely off-putting to me. And yes, the Seven Mountains Dominionism thing is real, they’re really subtle and usually try to pull people in without letting them know that explicitly… yeah. There’s so many malicious lies they tell about minorities and all Christian denominations outside Fundamentalist ones. I heard them, fortunately after hearing actually reasonable and decent means to evaluate information that helped me look at those and laugh them down or dismiss these ideas.
@@faemomofdragonsEven when I did work in food service for a short amount of time I needed it
I actually agree with him. In high school I was a student teacher for algebra. Some kids are going to drop out of highschool because they don't care, and their parents don't care, and that's what's going to happen. Frankly, the fact that they're going to school at all is completely ridiculous. It's a waste of everyone's time.
@@therattleinthebook397 To be clear, I'm not stopping your kid from dropping out, but I would greatly suggest exploring job opportunites outside of the 'barefoot hillbilly' career set. Manufacturing is dead, you're not going to do much better than survive without the bare minimum education.
Warehouse work seems to be the new regional hotness, little Jr needs to be able to effectively count for those jobs.
I literally don't want to live in a country where "PragerU" is allowed in the classroom... 😮
And I don't want to live in a country where pride flags are allowed in the classroom, so what are we going to do?
@@noahlebaron1957 You can have your state and I can have mine! I don't want to control you and I don't want you to control me. Bring back the Constitution and rest the political power of Americans, back into our own hands, by our votes instead of "lobbying" and all this nonsense!
@@crackthefoundation_It's amazing how all of the problems conservatives and liberals have can be figured out by just talking to one another rather than using fox news, daily wire and CNN as middle men.
But couldn't agree more.
@@noahlebaron1957 The media lies are sickening. Rubbish, as my grandmother would say. They want us to hate eachother when we have most things in common...
@@noahlebaron1957 I want to add, because your reply was intelligent. To reinforce how close we are. When we are told to hate eachother. You are right;
I am the only male descendant of my entire family because all three men died fighting in the Pacific, USMC, Tarawa and the nearby islands. If people study history - And are active - We can save this country and/or civilization. We have to communicate ourselves without the media inbetween, literally like this comment thread but with more beer
Cheers 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🍉
As an autistic, queer, trans kid, (With many mental illness diagnoses) I can say that treating kids as objects has caused me to be dismissed on what mental illnesses I have, and this video and the video about "Parents Rights" really helped me see why I was dismissed so many times. Thank you.
"Why are we so blind to see, that the ones we hurt are you and me?"
- Coolio, Gangsta's Paradise.
Did they teach about transgenderism when yu were in school?
@@Super-BallSharp Probably not. And also, that's irrelevant.
@@doodlesyoru2108 I just wanna know.
@@Super-BallSharp Really, most information regarding this is not taught anywhere in schools, and when it is, it's almost guaranteed to contain misinformation.
Plus, this is getting constantly updated; scientists are trying to find any links that being trans has on genetics.
As a Floridian I an so excited to watch this because education here has completely eroded
🫂it's so bad here
What are some examples? I’m in California and I’ve heard about some conservative takeover in Florida but idk what is actually going on there
@@willhovel5047 they banned ap african american studies. They made a policy where teachers have to explain slavery from “both sides” and can’t explain the true horrors of slavery or else they risk getting fired. All the books I read in my high school years are banned now (Beloved, Catcher in the Rye, Their Eyes Are Watching God, etc) there’s a Don’t Say Gay policy where teachers are now by policy obligated to call students parents if they start going by different names or pronouns in school or if they come out to them, they aren’t allowed to teach any lgbt history tho that’s always been the case here it’s just worse now because any remotely queer books have been removed from school libraries even tho all the ones that were in school libraries were child friendly. They aren’t just targeting k-12 but also trying to aim towards higher education now by trying to defund any diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at colleges, I also believe they are trying to make it so colleges are legally required to report to the government when students change their names (can not remember if this passed through yet or not). They are also trying to remove any majors that have to do with race or gender. The list goes on quite frankly and it is terrifying as someone who was born here and staying in state for education is the most affordable option for me but I am literally watching this states educational system deteriorate in real time because of alt right anti-intellectual policies and propaganda. Florida currently has the 9th lowest literacy rate in the U.S and I firmly believe that is going to keep getting worse because of how impossible education has become here. A lot of teachers I had in hs who were incredibly passionate are quitting or have quit because of how shit the policies here have gotten (and ofc the pay has gotten even worse). It is a terrifying shitstorm here
@@jessefied-musicandgames2854 yea it’s genuinely terrifying :( 🫂
@@willhovel5047 I only graduated a year ago but my school was extremely short staffed and was consistently losing teachers all 4 years I was there, to the point where my econ teacher was a straight up socialist who told us to get out of the state as soon as we could
This is a major reason I'm home schooling even though it is one of the most exhausting things I've ever done. I had to quit my job to focus full time on their education and it is more difficult than I ever imagined.
Teachers really are heroes.
6 of our 11 elementary schools were shut down in the last ten years.
My nephew is a 3rd grade teacher with 33 students.
An FBI investigation discovered multiple administrators embezzled over 33 million dollars from our anemic school budget.
Despite being on the ballot every year for over 25 years they have never voted to raise taxes to properly fund our schools.
A school teacher told me through tears, "To be honest, this job is killing me. Every year I have to pick ten kids to give up on so the other 25-30 have a chance. If I want to eat properly and not destroy my mental health I have to pick 15. I hate this job, I hate myself and I want to quit as soon as possible."
City council is way more concerned with giving our teachers guns than our students books and supplies.
Even if they had Rambo teaching I would not feel safe sending my kid there with spiking crime and homeless rates.
Last year city council hired a new school superintendent who's pay was one fifth of the entire budget. When this sparked controversy he replied, "This is average pay for places like San Francisco and New York. Do you want the best or do you want it done cheap?"
Since his hire they've closed two middle schools and one of three high schools are on the chopping block.
My best friend sends his kid to public school. She does a different fundraiser every single month and despite being three years older than my daughter can not read or do math at anywhere near her level. (This is not me being a doting father, my other friend in a major city has two sons who are one grade higher but very advanced compared to my oldest.)
He's currently considering pulling his kid and paying me to start a homeschool group.
Homeschooling is the hardest thing I've ever done and our family is endlessly thankful we could afford the huge sacrifices of losing a second income. I would not recommend homeschooling to anyone not in my situation.
Imagine having to completely self motivate and work a job that pays in hugs and stickers and your 'boss' is constantly telling you it's totally fine to take the day off.
Imagine going years with no health insurance rolling the dice hoping your partner eventually gets that promotion so she can afford it for you.
Imagine knowing if your kid ever screws up it is completely your fault. Strangers assuming I'm some religious zealot and Christian fundamentalist when they find out I homeschool.
And my personal favorite, ruining your resume with a huge gap in it for your children so strangers can find out you're 'unemployed' while my wife is the breadwinner assuming I'm some deadbeat dad or leech.
Our education system in this state is essentially doomed and I feel sorry for the children.
Youre a fricken hero man
God bless you friend. I hope you get the recognition you deserve.
It will all be worth it one day, I promise. Stay strong
Given the situation you laid out, I imagine your kids are grateful, or at least will be grateful when they have a better understanding (depending on their age). You are a hero.
Dude I need to know what state you live in that drove you to do this for your family.
Its genuinely insane that multiple states accept a RUclips channel as certified educational material. Like the same as making Markiplier educational material, although I think that would actually be MORE educational
There are hundreds of RUclips channels that would be great in an educational setting.
Fartiplier is at least more educational than over half of the "educational" channels on youtube though
PragerU is literally just propaganda, It's insane
Nah this ain’t it. I get what you’re trying to say, but what about TedTalks? SciShow? Vsauce? Answer In Progress? Tom Scott? Crash Course? None of those are educational enough to be used in schools??
@@tingle-tainmentasmr2404I think certifying the entire channels as approved class materials would be a bad idea, yeah. They're a seperate entity from the school, they could sell their channel to a rabid bigot or even become rabid bigots and then you've already given them a blanket approval.
sent this video to my dad who’s getting close to his 15th year of teaching. thank you so much for this video
Even in the area I live, which is relatively progressive, education is still eroding. Schools are being closed, class sizes are gargantuan, and there aren't enough teachers to go around. Parents are overworked and overwhelmed so they can't teach proper behavior to their kids at home or help them with their homework. Even with the best intentions, our system is failing because of the greed of people with something to gain from privatizing education.
Rich coming from a pinko, you get that 100% literacy rate though, just costs a few small things like liberty, self determination and a massacre or two.
People: Schools are going WOKE!!!
My schools: still having class debates on whether or not slavery is bad
That’s the point of schools lol. The irony in how people don’t see this is hilarious. Equally as biased as not wanting “right wing” opinions in school. Everything is a response to actions. There is no conspiracy.
@@pc3340 Whether or not slavery is bad shouldn't be up for debate lmao fuck outta here dumbass
@@pc3340So slavery might be good?
@@pc3340This video literally proved a conspiracy theory.
@@yourclairygodmother I wouldn’t say it proved anything lol. Just reinforced the idea of a conspiracy. No different than any other “conspiracy” proof. Can’t really say it’s a conspiracy when it’s public knowledge. The speculation on the “why” is what’s the conspiracy. And people don’t like to admit that recent influxes of teachers and districts thinking they’re meant to spread their opinions to kids and neglect education has resulted in this.
This is my own story as a grad student+teacher. As someone who works as an instructor at WVU in a humanities department, I’m seeing education cuts happening in real time. Many of my colleagues have offered to retire early to save others; tenured professors fired, married couples broken up, and over 30 majors eliminated (including all majors in foreign languages and most of the language instruction).
It’s impossible to look at the board of governors, the president, and the provost and believe that they have anything but ill intentions for the young people of West Virginia, many of whom are too poor to go to school out of state. They intend to deprive them of language and humanities instruction (even advanced degrees in math) all under the guise of financial deficits, despite the fact that humanities disciplines require almost no overhead costs compared to lab sciences and are often money-making programs; not to mention education in the humanities teaches valuable, transferable skills.
Deprivation is the point. They don’t want critical thinkers, they want cogs who have no cultural curiosity or introspection. STEM fields are extremely critical to the world, but teaching STEM should not come at the expense of humanities. I see so many people pitting humanities against STEM, when the two should work together. And STEM fields aren’t necessarily safe either! If you can’t prove that your field is constantly growing and attracting new students, you’re on the chopping block. Some labs at WVU have doubled in size from 70 to 140 students to cut costs. I’m sure I don’t have to tell chemistry people why that’s a bad idea.
So, what to do? Unionize. Workers-faculty, students, staff-should organize. Build now, so you can make a stink when these things happen. The reason WVU made national headlines when this went down was because we have a devoted base of workers and students who deeply care about this place. The university walked back some of its cuts; some things were saved. But the situation is still dire, all because a couple of people at the top have a vendetta. Learn from us.
2:17 "expanding the number of standardized tests students have to do"
YES OH MY GOD!
I am a high school student in Texas rn and I have to do three progress tests a year semester exams and EOCS and I am so burnt out and tired but if I take a day off I immediately become behind with all the work I miss in just a day
Something that I've gleaned from learning about this approach to education is this: kids, and thus students, aren't 'people'. Adults are 'people', and only 'people' matter.
And only conservative white men
Don't forget foetuses, they're the most important people of all!
@@violet7773Right lmao💀 I can’t with their logic.
@@violet7773 Foetuses are not people. They are very convenient bargaining chips, because they literally have no choices or agency of their own.
I agree and sadly this is true throughout society, not just in education.
Thank you. I'm european, but we can see similar tendencies everywhere… It's really scary to think that our system prefers very narrowly educated individuals and certain political parties all around the world depends on non-educated voters and on making extremists out of them…
Aggression from extremists are always an issue. Especially if there's nothing containing it.
A lot of people in Europe and Australia tend to take this for granted. Because the police are still doing their job. Like they're supposed to.
But it's just different in other parts of the world. And it's been trying to creep into the United States as well.
People just aren't going to do things. If it doesn't match their "emotional vibe."
The only people doing something are the Bullies. Looking for another "nerd" to shove in the hallway.
They made an extremist out of me; I'm a Marxist-Leninist
This reminds me of how in the so-called "Dark Ages" when literacy was legally restricted to the aristocracy...
And the left does nothing
Yeah, back when it cost 100k to make a book and writing was a classical skill.
@@matttheradartechnician4308 I was thinking about literal sumptuary laws.
People talk about how important it is to give children equal chances and resources to succeed in life, and then seemingly ignore the roots of the problem but then start blaming wokeness and propose ridiculous plans to take things into their own hands it makes no sense to me
I wish I had a dollar for every parent I've come across who took their child out of public school because the school wanted to test them for learning disabilities so the students could get extra help. The parents are so paranoid about "labeling" that they put the kids into charter schools or homeschooling situations where they get no help at all and just keep struggling and being traumatized by constant frustration.
I don't understand why this shit doesn't lead to child services being called on them, and the parents being interrogated by a detective on suspicion of medical neglect. If the child has a disability, then it should be diagnosed and proper care given, so they can get the help they need.
I’ve worked as both a paraprofessional and a SPED teacher and I have seen parents who have taken their daughter with Down syndrome out of the public school with an actual program for her, so she can be put in private school because the mother did not like the image of her being in private school. Even go so far as said she didn’t care if her daughter received a degree, just as long as she dieted enough to be in slim enough clothes.
@@arthurwintersight7868 The sad truth is learning disabilities are often "invisible disabilities", so most people don't consider them disabilities, even when they have a serious impact on a person's life. The kid is thought to be not smart or lazy or doesn't pay attention or goes too fast and makes avoidable errors, it's not a disability. For me, I didn't get diagnosed until I was 25, and even that I had to fight for.
@@o0bookwyrmknight0o Well, the capitalist system doesn't bode well for disabled children. If you can't make billionaires and multi-millionaires earn more profits, then you are useless to the elite.
Down Syndrome literally makes you inherently less valuable if you can't be force fed into the meat-grinder education system.
I don't know how things are run nowadays, but back in my high school there was a problem of children being labeled with disabilities they didn't have due solely to their academic performance or social behavior. This was done for a number of reasons:
1. Preventing their poor standardized testing results from reflecting bad on the school.
2. Bolstering their IEP and Special Education programs to qualify for more school funding
3. Preventing any outbursts from reflecting poorly on the schools ability to handle discipline and maintain order (for the more violent kids).
I knew quite a few people who got labeled with disabilities they didn't have because of these reasons, so I can understand some resistance in letting the school decide how your child's brain works.
Special education services are being taken away too/cut out of schools in "common sense pro life" states 🤢
The logic loops are infinite with these ones
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thank you
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These “good Christians” don’t care about anything but power, money and control
They've been cut everywhere. I live in a democratic state and we removed the middle special Ed programs because they "weren't inclusive". There's now kids who need extra support having meltdowns because they don't have the extra support they need and are overwhelmed by a regular class. Teachers and other students are being assaulted during the meltdowns. My mom's a paraeducator and the woman she worked with had her faced smashed in with a chair by an autistic kiddo who would have regular meltdowns. This is at an elementary school, by the way.
There has also been a severe nationwide shortage of special educators for over a decade EVERWHERE in the states.
As horrible as that is, I wonder if they’ll push far enough for a lawsuit. There are really specific federal laws that are supposed to protect disabled and special needs students (IDEA, which passed around the same time as ADA). I’m not surprised either that they’re doing that. Matt Walsh recently said that he doesn’t think ADHD is real, and cons have been saying other mental health disorders are just “in your head.”
They want only two categories: people they think are “normal,” and people who they think should be subjugated and institutionalized (out of sight, out of mind).
And, cutting out arts and music is inherently bad for special needs students because many of them really thrive in the project-based curriculum many of those classes have, and they focus more on expression and emotion. Then again, SEL (social and emotional learning) has faced opposition from cons since it’s inception.
Not being able to articulate your emotions makes it harder to regulate them later in life. Emotions are labeled as “feminine” to them (despite many musical composers being predominantly male). They thrive on males being taught to be angry about new things they don’t know about or are scared of, because it pushes them to vote red. If male students learn critical thinking and emotional intelligence, they might not be on board with the conservative platform.
They’d probably take away the right to vote from special needs and disabled people if they could.
-from a music educator with special needs
@@maggie6152This is why I’m currently in college studying to become a autistic Deaf teacher to disabled, autistic and neurodivergent students. I felt this need to do this because it’s severely needed in education. I have multiple disabilities and it wrecks my heart that education has gotten to this point. I worry what the future holds for education.
If you want to see a real-world example of an American education system that operates through private institutions and uses vouchers to give parents more choices, look at the city of New Orleans. After hurricane Katrina, their public school system completely failed. Corruption, poor funding, and a chronic lack of maintenance to school buildings and public infrastructure all contributed to a crumbling school district that collapsed when hit by the catastrophic storm and its aftermath.
Today, kids in New Orleans have two options: Charter Schools, or Private Schools. Government vouchers are given out, but they don’t cover enough tuition for many of the Private options. There is a very clear divide between families who can afford extra tuition to go to one of the “good” schools, and those that must rely on vouchers alone. It goes without saying that that line is very much in step with the racial divide in the city.
the collapse was due to the rampant local corruption... not funding. todays kids are better off...
and would be moreso if the democrats werent in power. when the left wins, the children lose.
I want to open a private school that will drive parents NUTS. There will be no "school board" per-say. Everyone on the school board will only be those individuals who have worked with kids. I.e. teachers, councilors, pediatricians, etc. Not just "local parents".
Second, ACTUAL history courses will be taught, not the WHITE - washed version.
Third, the school library will allow "banned" books. While some books will be age-limited, depending on the content, the books will STILL BE THERE.
Fourth, the teachers will be encouraged to aid students, not just pass over them.
Fifth, if a student cannot read or write, he / she will not be just "Pushed to the next grade", they will be held back.
Sixth, all the bathrooms will be gender-neutral. There'll be no urinals, there will be regular stalls in ALL bathrooms.
Seventh, students will be called by their preferred gender and name. And if a student "comes out" to a teacher, no teacher will be required to tell the family, that is up to the student.
Along with many other reforms I would have in that school, these are but a small handful of them.
Parents homeschooled me until freshman year of high school where I went to a private Christian school. Teachers were terribly underpaid and my senior year biology teacher was, I kid you not, 3-4 moms on rotation as “substitutes” after the actual teacher quit a month into the semester.
Also having “bible” as a required “elective” class where we just memorized verses and argued over baptist theology.
My parents paid soooooo much money for me to get, essentially, a terrible education if not for a couple of wonderful math and English teachers. Literally the only things that saved me when I got to college. None of the educators from my 4 years were there even 2 years later.
...required elective???
You got science classes in your Christian school?? I had to tutor my friend (2 years my senior) for the GED because she hadn't had even 5th grade level science ever presented to her before, I was public school until 2nd year of high school, she had only been homeschooled and private school. SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
@@RichConnerGMNcurrently in a similar school to the main commenter. For me, it’s a primary class.
@@Eggofficial09 And of course there is the panic over colleges being liberal brainwashing machines.
Because it's relatively easy to keep a kid in a bubble where they aren't exposed to any information about the outside world K-12. Much harder to keep them isolated like that if the kid goes to college.
Little bit different here in my province in Canada. Yes, my private Christian jr high/high school required biblical studies classes (we therefore had to graduate with 4 more high school credits to get our high school’s diploma (not just the provincial high school diploma) than the average student in the province. But I was very able to take all three-biology, chemistry, and physics-science classes in grades eleven and twelve, had AP English available, and had wonderful history classes, and top notch music instruction (I went on to get my bachelor of music degree, and have been teaching music in various settings for the past 14 years, including working alongside my former band director at a summer band camp!). My parents’ primary reason back in 2000 for sending my sister there beginning in grade 9 was that our local high schools were dealing with a decently significant drug/alcohol program. But the beliefs were also a factor, and they also valued the higher academic standards very highly. Smaller classes, lower student numbers overall, stricter rules around things like respect and drug behaviour were some of the things that allowed this somewhat odd introvert to thrive, and I have a number of friends from my 2002-2008 years there that I talk to frequently still-we’ll be lifelong friends I’m sure, we pick up right where we left off whenever we see each other. Anyways. I guess education rules are a little bit different in Canada than the USA. I’m not a parent, but due to my experiences from K to 6 at the local public elementary school (and one year middle school as my jr high/high school started then at grade 7, but the elementary school only went to grade 5) I would not want to enrol a child in the local schools, unless things have changed greatly in terms of things like respect policies, anti bullying policies and ENFORCEMENT (all well and good to have rules but if you don’t enforce them it doesn’t make a hair of a difference) of said policies…well, I guess I’ll cross that bridge if it ever happens. My early years education left a lot to be desired, but my grade 7-12 education saved me, literally. In a weird twist of things, I was going through abuse at home (parents being an odd mix of love and violence at the same time) and serious depression (later appropriately diagnosed as bipolar disorder) and anorexia nervosa, and school (and music) was my refuge. I don’t think I would have had that in the local public school where I wasn’t known by my name etc (even if occasionally that name was ‘so and so’s little sister’ (ah the joys of being a younger sibling)). Growing up isn’t easy, and schools can play a huge role in either improving or making things more difficult. Something I take very seriously as an educator now myself.
don't play the "but it gets worse" drinking game. 1) you'll get sick 2) you'll forget the very important, actually life-threatening information
I was walking the street...
but it gets worse, it was with a grizzly bear...
but it gets worse, I was walking my sister's beagle...
but it gets worse, a car ran over the bear and exploded...
but it gets worse, a truck ran over the car, which in turn ran over the dog, and both exploded...
but it gets...what was I saying again?
***plane literally crashes into the place this story is being told***
We at museums also suffer this war as well. A lot of nature and science museums are dependent on monetary donations and if we talk about facts that don’t please those donors we risk losing funding, not only endangering our educators finances and the future of our scientific collections but the opportunity to educate the community about important subjects.
I'm a historian and I've been studying History since I was a child in the late '60s. My mother encouraged my love of History. I grew up in a tight-knit, multi-generational, immigrant family, appreciating the entire world but loving my country. I started reading when I was 3, so my mom made sure I read as many books outside of my schoolwork as possible -- I was not homeschooled, but I did attend a lot of Catholic School in the 1970s, a time I consider to be much more liberal than the time we are living in today.
I am very much a realist and prone to logic. However, there's one "conspiracy theory" to which I've subscribed since I began college in the early 1980s, and that's that the Republican Party has made a concerted effort at suppressing socioeconomic elevation of the lower classes through education. I know it to be a fact because I've watched it in action. I still have papers I wrote in undergrad in the 1980s, in the Reagan administration, on that administration's efforts to block funding for higher education. Reagan cut back on the student loan program, using apocryphal stories of students who used their loans for Spring Break trips to Mexico rather than their education -- this was an impossibility the way the loan program was run at that time. But the public bought it. I ran short on funding my senior year because of what his administration did to funding, and only by the empathy of relatives did I get the last $2000 I needed to pay my school and graduate.
While working on my MA in US History, I learned from one of my professors, who was working on writing a textbook with a professor from another school, that ALL History textbooks must pass government scrutiny twice: federal and state. This is why what is going on in Florida now doesn't surprise me. P!sses me off, but doesn't surprise me. The more I dwelled on what was taught in school from the time I was a small child -- to which I didn't pay a lot of attention because I was learning more at home -- I realized that what's often taught in schools is sheer government-sponsored propaganda. It's not just the USA that does it, though. Every nation uses their History classes to push their propagandist view of their illustrious history. You don't even begin to learn anything akin to the truth until and unless you go to college. This is another reason why conservatives are waging this war on education. Knowledge equals power - that's just fact. Powerful people are not easily manipulated. Knowledgeable people are not easily misled. People who know things, know their worth. And we are talking about people who are nowhere near as pious as they want others to believe. I really feel sorry for the people who believe the rhetoric that these conservative mouthpieces spout - who take it all at face value. Their naivete and ignorance are being exploited for someone else's nefarious gain.
I was heartened to see your video, just to see that finally, others see what I've known to be true for a very long time. Not that conservatives have been subtle about it. People who use others' sincerely-held beliefs as a means to manipulate them are vile.
As a non-American its terrifying seeing whats happening with education in the US. Unfortunately, the US has a large influence on other countries both is politics and culture and I just really, really hope this stuff doesn't start happening here too. My countries already going steadily further down the shithole as it is.
@@chris135xwe should just understand teaching different perspectives is important. Crazy that these people openly admit they just don’t want to be confronted by different view points. How would we ever learn anything?
I'm Canadian
Most problems in the modern world are currently being caused by the United States, specifically 10 - 25 people in the United states who think that they, for some reason, deserve to be much richer than everyone else in the world. Like, currently owing 93% of the U.S economy rich.
@@chris135x,
"Both Sides"
Two right-wing sh*t*ss parties who do only what the rich want...
Yeah, that's a spectrum worth calling two sides.... Only if you're a fool.
When America sneezes the world catches a cold
The bit about class size really hit me
I have ADHD, was in public school from K-9 and my mom switched me to a private (catholic all-girls 🙄) high schoolfor 10-12.
She did this because i was moreorless on honor roll for most of my childhood, and my GPA TANKED in high school purely because my HS was so overcrowded (like several thousand over capacity and 50% of classes were held in “temporary” classroom buildings outside the actual brick and mortar school.
We know my struggle was due to the overcrowding cuz when i switched to where there were like barely 20 kids in a room and not nearly 40, my GPA shot up by two letter grades in the first semester of my sophomore year.
Thankfully my school wasnt weird and fundamentalist or anything but yeah- class size made a significant difference for me.
Yeah can confirm, when i was in a class of only 13th students (me included) i used to have much better grades, now i am in a class of 40th where there's no ventilation, the students barely cooperate with the teachers, and they all are isolated into their own cliques, and my engagement just went down, my final tests of the year begin tomorrow and i hope i can do a little bit better there :/
@@bebebonb0n America is weird. I'm in Vietnam, where classes with 40+ kids are very common, I didn't see much issue with having such a number in classes. My scores didn't tank either, I'd just study like normal, get good grades and that's that.
@@jamesbrendan5170 I'm in America and class size didn't matter one bit for my education. From my experience of public and private schools i find that private schools have far easier and simpler programs where the subjects aren't gone into much depth, whereas public schools use a standard curriculum that covers far more material. This is just my experience from a single public highschool and a single private highschool, but second hand from others I've seen this sort of thing as well.
@@cardomajig24 I doubt the system was built for me - and it certainly did not work for me. I said nothing of the sort of people with ADHD, and I struggled to focus on study and work.
My comment is solely in reference to confounding variables that may muddy the conclusion that private schools are superior - not eugenic beliefs
@@jamesbrendan5170 its because the school system here was not designed for that many kids to be in a class together. our teachers are not used to it and neither are the children.
Being educated and critical thinking makes everyone hate being exploited and the rest plutocracy we live in
Of coarse billionaires want to fight it
"Individualism" in the conservative sense is a sham. It's not about being an individual at all. It's about shirking any kind of responsibility for other people's well being. This is best seen in the whole "personal responsibility" narrative they love harping on. It's literally just a more palatable way of saying "not my problem", a way of justifying callous behavior. If they actually cared about people becoming fully realized individuals they'd support things like smaller class sizes, more critical thinking training instead of content knowledge, and less "objective" evaluations. What these people want is not individualism. They want a continuation of the existing power hierarchy and the perpetuation of normative values, which, ironically, is actually antithetical to real individualism. When they say they want you to "think for yourself" or that they are "thinking for themselves", they're lying or deluding themselves. What they want is for you to subscribe to their way of thinking, to let you or their leaders do the thinking for you. They want conformity, not individualism. Claiming to value "individualism" is just a convenient way to justify selfishness.
Now I know this is a pretty harsh condemnation, but I want to be clear that I don't think that this actually means conservatives are consciously selfish, evil people. It's natural to want to serve your own interests, and conservative ideology is basically entirely constructed on making it morally palatable to do that. It's an incredibly tempting position to take; conservative ideology tells you that you already have all the answers, you're already in the right, helping yourself at the expense of others is right totally justified and fair, etc. It tells people what they want to hear. It makes them feel right, it makes them feel secure, it makes them feel in control, it makes them feel safe and it makes them feel validated. It also takes the huge intellectual and emotional burden of having to tackle complex social issues and throws it to the side. For people who feel constantly overwhelmed by the world around them, it can be a massive relief to have an authority figure or group come in and tell them that it's all actually very simple and it's going to be fine as long as they do what they say. And for others, this may well be all they've really known. Outside perspectives look scary and threatening to everyone, and conservative leaders leverage this to keep people who were raised conservatively in the fold. In fact, many of these conservative leaders went through the same thing, and even now don't realize what awful things they're actually doing. Generations of obscuring barriers have been erected to protect them from the unpleasant truth of their ideology, and humans are inherently motivated to avoid anything that might be self-condemning. This doesn't mean we can let them continue on as they are without opposition, but it's important to remember our opponents are people, not monsters. By and large, they want to be good people. They've just been enmeshed in a worldview and social framework that lets them believe they are being good people even when they very much aren't.
This is a bit of a forbidden thought, offensive to all sides, but I believe culture affects evolution by changing who has the reproductive advantage. An atheist is going to have a harder time becoming a parent if everyone else in the region is basically bred to be believers. It's similar for selfishness, a love of violence, and a hatred of intelligence. If a culture is toxic, it breeds toxic people who make the culture worse.
There was an experiment where mice were given a utopia, Universe 25. By the end of it, the mice were so self-loving (excessive preening), isolating, or predatory that the ones who didn't get killed had little interest in reproduction. They traumatized and abandoned their offspring. The population dropped and it was back to a paradise, in terms of plentiful food and space, but the behaviors persisted and the mice died out.
It's possible that the US has stupidity, selfishness, and violence written into its DNA, amplifying its toxic culture in a destructive feedback loop. But no matter how far we sink, I'm happy there is a very large population of collectivists out there to continue being human and making progress. Our government seems desperate to bomb them, because of course it is, but that won't happen if our increasingly rapid implosion deprives us of the cognitive capacity to drop bombs.
Most of the conservatives I've met have told me they actually just do not care about other people. The rest said the same, but couched in more palatable language. Anecdotal, I know; but it's all I have to go off of. The misgiuded, misled conservative feels like a myth to me.
@@DreamersOfRealitythat is extremely concerning, did they drop out of school or is school really that bad
The conservatives I grew up among, granted all Christians and most homeschoolers, and the conservatives I have adulted among, again many conservatives and for a number of years private school teachers and parents, explicitly do not see and do not understand the concept that community good is good for them as individuals. They do not care to contribute to the well-being of others because they categorically cannot fathom how said well-being is also good for them. Like when a transit tax renewal was up and the main argument to vote "no" was "well I don't take the bus." yeah, you may not--but what about your housekeeper, and the secretary at your doctor, and the secretary at your child's school, and the custodians at businesses your patronize? *facepalm* But I find conservative Christian thought (particularly evangelical, baptistic thought) is very divorced from the thought of actual communal help and community well-being. The only places where you really see community thought is in relation to prayer and in making meals for sick folks (which seems more like a cultural tradition held over from more isolated times than an actual community well-being action). It's constantly seen in their argument against school funding (which categorically has been shown to solve school problems--more money actually does fix a large number of current public school issues): "well my kids don't go there, so why should my money?" Because an educated community is a healthy community, you selfish so-and-sos. And then of course, you add in the particular "too heavenly minded to be earthly good" nature of American fundamentalism and they'd rather pay for children to go to evangelizing schools than healthy public schools. It suuuuuuuuuuucks.
But I do agree--they aren't consciously selfish and evil, but their outlook is selfish with a lot of flowery justification convincing them it isn't somehow.
Good enough analysis except for the baseless biologizations. "Inherent."
Just as inherent as cigarette smoke is to air.
"Natural"
I don't give a flying f*ck if it's natural. Dying of polio is aldo natural. Meaningless buzzword for people who have not yet realized that natural doesn't mean good. Or unchanging.
'people should be able to choose to have whatever education they want' - well, I could see that. If it was the kids themselves who were asking for the choice. But, of course, it is not the kids. The lens of individualism has to immediately be countered here with the realisation that kids are not considered to be individuals within this framework - they only exist as passive recipients of their parent's purchasing power; in effect, they are objects decorated by the parent with clothes, toys, education, beliefs etc.
Even though I'm not all that knowledgeable on this topic, admittedly, I can easily tell this is a strawman.
Obviously, the ideal, if we're assuming they are promoting Christian values, would be that the parents listen to their child, and use proper discernment in their education. You can read this in the Pauline epistles.
Really, the greatest education, as I have found, is autodidactic. No public education system has ever come close to what I've managed to teach myself. Public education is abysmal, and there definitely SHOULD be easily viable alternatives.
You're kinda begging the question here, their are plenty of cultures that give a child significant input into their education, especially by the time they reach middle school, because kids are expected to be preparing for their career in high school. The biggest issue you're ignoring here is that parents aren't supposed to have rights regarding their children, it is their children that have the rights, the parents merely have *responsibilities*. Included among those responsibilities is providing basic necessities such as clothes, food and shelter, failure to provide any of those 3 is immediate grounds for revoking all parental PRIVILEGES, and the child can be taken into custody and put into foster care. The parent doesn't have a right to access their kids unalienably, the access is dependent on the parent meeting certain goals. Another of those is providing access to some manner of education, though the law has been set up to protect abusive home schooling scenarios.
It can be true that parents get to make all of the choices for their children 'in the end' (as in only the parent's decisions are binding), but it is understood that a parent is required to not be abusive of these privileges, and it's also true that plenty of input from the child will be necessary to have good outcomes, cooperation from the child is required, not optional in education.
@@Corvid-Conquest I think there are plenty of viable alternatives now, if what you care about is actual education. If you care about staying connected to a broken and failing system there are not good options. Trying to fix pub schooling is like gilding a turd. It's an abusive and dysfunctional system run by incompetent buffoons. Paying them more or "reform" is not going to fix the fact that most teachers are unqualified emotionally or intellectually to teach students.
@@Corvid-Conquest > the greatest education, as I have found, is autodidactic
That depends entirely on what you're trying to educate yourself on. Sure if you want to dive deep into quantum mechanics or neural networks or other advanced topics, you won't get that in K-12. Those are more college level things.
How about basic reading and writing though? Did you teach yourself that? I'm guessing you probably didn't.
I agree though that the (American) public school system is abysmal. There's been so much push to make schools profitable (or worse, to make schools "safe" for those poor right wingers that can't so much as see a rainbow without convulsing in fits of rage but definitely aren't snowflakes) that the country has kind of forgotten what schools are really supposed to be teaching:
Basic _life_ skills.
Yes that includes the "3 Rs" but it also includes social skills as well as provide a wide (not necessarily deep) range of information about everything else as well - science, math, art, music, sports, economics, history, literature, etc. Let kids know what's out there so that they can make an informed decision about what subjects they want to pursue after K-12 (in college, trade schools or even straight into the job market).
The current system is still OK on the "3 Rs" for the most part, but its not doing great on the social skills thing (and some groups are doing their best to make it even worse and don't see the contradiction of preaching hate in Jesus' name) and its running sub-50% on the subject matter breadth (focusing almost entirely on STEM and ignoring everything else. Some schools still do sports if they happen to get a lot of funding for running a competitive sports team, but even that's slowly drying up in the eternal push to shrink school budgets).
@@offensivearch The parents who don't question themselves on if their child's education is providing the appropriate skills and values for the child's development, nor if their child finds a joy from learning in general, and just wantonly throw them into the public education system - because it's the easy route - truly do their children a grave disservice. There is no clear solution I can find for these suffering children, who slip through the cracks due to parental neglect.
it's seems to not just be the arts being taken away, but stem also. In my physical science class, the chemistry section is almost being entirely removed and my teacher is having to literally fight against this to let us do chemistry so we aren't just set up for failure.
@@chris135x it is :(
@@chris135x thank conservatives that run on a low tax pro business platform and the suckers that vote for them.
Why would the state spend money on educating a slave caste?
Are you saying that if a child doesn’t learn chemistry they’re automatically going to fail in life? Most jobs don’t require much or any chemistry knowledge…
@@oceansolstice608I'm not sure they’re going that far, but it does cut off any route those students had into any Chemistry-related field. It straight up removes an entire subsector of high-paying jobs from a kid's future, as well as quite possibly stunting their abstract and analytical thinking.
The conservative mindset on education sounds very dehumanizing for children.
You didn't hear "the conservative mindset" presented by a conservative. You heard it from someone who inherently disagrees, and fundamentally does not understand:
School as a business is true
The emphasis on STEM.... what about Hillsdale's Barney Initiative K-12? Classical education there. So she mis-represented the charter field. the entire point of charter, are different schools to appeal to different parents.
The "status-quo" and desire for obedient workers... was a complete misunderstanding. Of COURSE parents who send their children to be well employed. Do any parents dream of unemployed children? "Status-quo" is not specific can suggest the conservation of many different things, but this was quickly followed up with a story on racism. Actually, charter schools aren't about race. It's about religion. The more atheist the public schools become, the more the religious abandon ship. There are complaints when searching for homeschool curriculum, that atheist curriculum is hard to find. The original private Catholic schools were created when Protestant Christians dominated the public schools. Now that atheism dominates, anyone who wants their child to maintain the faith of their parents, opts for the like-minded alternative. Its really no surprise. Jews have always had their own Hebrew schools. And, just like a Jew wouldn't send their child to a Madrasa, and a Catholic wouldn't send their child to a Hebrew school, Protestant Christians are now attempting to remove their children from increasingly atheist government schools.
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 Spotted the bruised ego "religious" conservative.
@@BlueSunStudios1 i wasnt trying to hide that I am a "conservative". Bruised would imply harm. I am fine, but I feel mis-understood, and this is a video about "understanding" the other side. I was here watching this video, to try and understand what those in my life see when they see me. I am aware most dont think like me.
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 We have long since been hearing the other side who continuously fight back against changes that "taint their perfect world" and vote in bills that cause harm to others like the nonsense regarding women and abortion in Texas that was put in place by conservative folks. We know what you want, and we are not having it any longer.
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 We've been hearing the conservative mindset from conservatives for ages now ever since we started things like desegregation, civil rights, women's rights, anything that benefits the non-white Christian Conservative man in ways that do not harm said white Christian Conservative man except for loosening their airtight and prejudiced control on America, and we get things like the nonsense happening in Texas with abortion, we get things like Donald Trump running roughshod in the White House and inciting a coup, we get things likebthe removal of and/or white washing of America's dark history to paint the oppressors in a better light and the opposite for the oppressed, we get things like the KKK, we get the old generation pinching the pennies of the younger generation and then blaming the younger generation for the failures they set the younger generation up for, I could go on. We've heard what the conservatives want, and we of the right mind are not having it anymore. This is one of those times where the "both sides" does not hold any real weight and where one side is clearly more detrimental to the welfare of the nation.
As someone homeschooled for religious/cultural reasons, raised in a culture/environment that was very anti public school/pro privatization, who is now a public high school teacher: yes to all of that. Yes.
Where is the subject in your sentence?
As utterly crazy as part of the Texas Education system is, I have to say I am proud that our Board of Education told PragerU that they were not coming to Texas. And, just a few days ago the Texas House shit down school vouchers. Much to my surprise, my own state representative, Steve Allison (Republican) was one of the members leading the charge to kill it. As uncomfortable as it may make me feel, I may give him support in his next election bid. If nothing else, I will be writing his office an email to thank him.
An actual GOOD thing coming from this pisshole? (I live in TX too) That's great and all but they also recently passed SB 4, and as a lawful immigrant, it's extremely disheartening that they have to resort to such racist and targeted measure for 'security'. It's also not their job, immigration is a FEDERAL issue. I understand the 'why' but they have no right to the 'how'. With how close to the book they claim to always be, they sure love rewriting it to serve themselves while us common citizens suffer. 🤦♂
Steve Allison is a weird republican. He's pro public education, pro low income health care, but pro wall, and anti crt.
@@MezzoForte4 Believe me, I hate how much this state mistreats migrants. Even if we are talking pure economics, migrants are a net benefit to the state.
Great, so if things do get bad enough in a state, they Republicans will start turning on these people. I guess that means Florida will eventually be next. Probably not until DeSantis is gone, though
Wait, we actually did something good for once? I’m almost impressed.
I'll never forget one subject in 6th grade in which my teacher wasn't allowed to call it evolution when we were studying it. It wasn't even about humans, we were learning abt some other animal.
Edit: I have no clue what the replies are talking abt
My history teacher wasn’t allowed to (and I quote; he showed us the state guidelines he had to follow or risk being fired) “suggest that any person or group is inherently more privileged than another based on race or gender”.
This was an African American history course.
Define woman.
I graduated in the 90s. My biology public school teacher violated state and school rules and *gasp* taught high school seniors and juniors that men and women have the same number of ribs. She was nearly fired on the spot and her contract was not renewed after 15 years of teaching there because of this. One day as a science teacher she just snapped over how ignorant her students were.
If you didn’t know, Baptists and other fundamentalist Christian churches teach since Adam had a rib removed to make Eve then all boys afterwards were born with one less rib than girls. This is proof to them that their gods is real and teach it to kids as such. As a result it’s a considered a violation to teach kids their god isn’t real, so anything, LITERALLY ANYTHING that contradicts local churches can’t be taught. When I was a teacher there was a very long list of topics in every subject, even math where among other things we couldn’t teach that our numbers are called Arabic Numbers opposed to say Roman Numbers, because it contradicted or diminished the outright lies local religious extremists were saying in their churches.
This is a major ongoing problem especially in the Bible Belt.
@@QisforQadim Woman is a term describing human or personificated being (in books, movies etc.) that belongs to group with certain traits that often vary dependent on region. If an individual belongs to this group is self defined and assumed by others based on presence of feminine traits. Basically a description based on percepton.
@QisfrQadim I figure women are adult females. That said, I don't see a reason to oppress trans folks (ditto for gay folks). Additionally didn't the guy pushing that line end up in public hot water for being interested in underage individuals or something like that? Perhaps a return question is "what is a child?"
The issues that the conservatives are facing and I think they are just plain forgetting about is that we now have the internet. They want to keep certain things from these kids, but these kids are going to find away around it all
Every student in the U.S. should have an equal amount of money spent on them. The money they get should NOT depend on the location in which they live. Also, there should be no religion taught in any school which receives public funding. If the parents want their children to be taught about religion then they are perfectly free to do that in their own time!, and in their own churches.
I honestly don't think so, I believe people from poorer families should get some support and school can spend a little more money on them
Unfortunately spending the same on every student would lead to unequal outcomes. The city I live in is substantially poorer than the surrounding suburbs, and spends far more per student than districts in the suburbs due to state grants, but is still the worst performing school district in the area.
As a student, I wish the school system would treat me like a person rather than a product. I'm tired of being a part of a machine that doesn't care about anyone's well-being unless they're rich.
sorry dude cope thats how the world works
@@saisohan2409 The point is that it shouldn't work this way. I am, indeed, coping, but I'm not happy. Never have been, not like this.
@@catdownthestreet folks like the guy you replied to are what i like to call “end of history-ites” people who believe the world is immovable and impossible to change for the common person.
Why? Because either A) the status quo benefits them or B) they believe the status quo is just, even with evidence proving it is not.
@@TheParadoxGamer1 Completely agree, it's ridiculous how loud those people are despite being so wrong.
@@catdownthestreet Frfr, also love the ADHD creature pfp
Saying that students are modeled as products absolutely gutted me. I had always felt a certain level of dissatisfaction with the education system in aggregate, but having all laid bare fills me with great sadness instead. It's a shame we really are so far removed from "education as enlightenment"
Our schools are based on the Prussian System. Make no mistake, we were NEVER educated "as enlightenment."
It is a very well constructed video essay. Whenever a question would form from what you were explaining, the next segment would cover it. Great job!
"You can't just not pay taxes, right?" Oh but that is literally what billionaires and huge businesses are doing. Sometimes they pay negative taxes where they fenangle their numbers so it looks like they're barely breaking even and need federal money to keep the employees they have. So technically, if you're rich enough, not paying taxes becomes the norm.
As a public school teacher who follows you, I've been waiting for this video!
I actually student taught at a public school that had been gutted by charters and was on the verge of shutting down. Most depressing school I've ever set foot in. You could just feel the apathy in that building. They kept firing more and more teachers every year. The hallways were full of empty classrooms. The teachers there told me they used to be a good school. They weren't anymore.
I think of it every time someone tries to argue that competition with charters will improve public schools. How on earth is slashing funding supposed to improve a school? Plus charter schools pull shenanigans like offering every parent who sends their kid there a free ipad. How are public schools meant to compete with that nonsense?
Firstly, schools only lose funding when they lose students. Per-student funding remains constant, so students still have access to the same resources. Plus, selling off unneeded equipment, including unused computers, could make money which would actually improve the amount of money available per student.
Secondly, obviously, schools should not be able to bribe parents to send their kids there. But giving out iPads coult potentially help improve educational attainment. And remember, charter schools receive the same amount of per-student funding as public schools, or sometimes less. So if giving students iPads improves standardised test scores more than other uses of the money would, then I support it. And if charter schools help students achieve more with less per-student funding, that's a good thing.
Also, computers which students can't take home with them are often just as expensive. And schools don't have to pay for the electricity to charge the iPads, because kids generally charge them at home. Whereas other computers require more power, and the school pays for it.
And it doesn't matter whether or not competition with charter schools improves public schools, because whether they get a better education at a public school or at a charter school, the student wins.
@@me-myself-i787 tell me you don't understand economies of scale withotu tellign me you don't understand economies of scale. The reason a well-populated school can afford more equipment and resources (things like the ipad you're suggesting) is because those resources can be used by multiple students. One ipad can cost 1000 dollars a school cannot afford to spend 1000 dollars per student no matter how many old junk computers or science equipment they sell. But if it's in a classroom where it's being used by 10 different students, it's only a 100 per student, even less if there's 20, or 30. Public school losing attendance to bullshit mcstudent factories has a direct negative impact on what public education can afford via public funding.
so if you want good education in public schools, this is a problem.
@@Tenshi6Tantou6Rei And this isn't even touching on how massive of a task it is to build, repair, and maintain, the building itself regardless of what's in the classrooms. Every student has the same dollar figure attached to them, but every school has certain hard minimum upkeep requirements, so the same amount of students & money spread out over more schools results in a whole hell of a lot money being spent on redundant buildings, maintenance staff/components, and administrative staff.
And this is also not touching on the fact that charter schools are, with some notable exceptions in states that saw this issue coming, FOR PROFIT companies. Which means their primary goal is profit. They don't fail if they create poor students, they only fail if they don't turn a profit. And in this system, you get a fixed amount of income per student that you attract. You can't increase your income by getting students or parents to spend more money on your school. So, the only way to increase profit is to attract as many students as possible while spending as little money as possible on providing anything to them. Almost exactly like an health insurance company.
So charter schools spread resources thinner, and are also actively incentivized to minimize the amount they spend on educating children, because they get to keep whatever they don't spend. Public schools don't get to pocket the budget surplus.
@@kylejohnson6775 oh 100%, and then when the public school has too low attendance to maintain itself, the kids who need it most get shuttled sometimes an hour out of their way so they can attend the next public school over, even though it would have been perfectly fine if these shit show charter schools, at least half of which are definitely money laundering schemes didn’t pop up and promise parents they won’t have each kids about sex, or the gays, or that racism is bad or whatever
@@Tenshi6Tantou6Rei That only applies to a certain extent. Obviously, schools don't normally get one computer per person, but if you get one computer per five students, you only need five students to maximise economies of scale. If you have 30 students per teacher, you only need 30 students to maximise economies of scale.
Most costs of schooling are variable.
Man the point about universal public goods hits so hard. Really falls in the vein of the “you couldn’t make libraries/the fire department today” feeling. The opposition to collectivism is so insane. Everything - including individualism - must find a balance.
dude. i work with a rich guy whos family has lots of money and even a governor and prior governor in his immediate family.
completely out of touch old money dingus.
He litterally didnt know we had a library, that libraries still exist, and couldlnt understand why they need to exist.
we dead a** couldnt make libraries or fire departments today. heck, maybe for profit firefighting will make a comeback.
Of course you couldn't make a library or fire department, those are both state monopolies, you wouldn't be _allowed_ to make your own in many cases, and even if you _were,_ you wouldn't be able to sustain yourself due to the competition from the public sector. Collectivism is insane, any balance, any compromise between good and evil is simply evil.
@@robertmartin6800 I think the idea is that if the government didn’t already have those 2, and wanted to make them, nobody would want it even if they are OBJECTIVELY good for everyone.
@@Artemie-np3qu I certainly don't agree that state controlled services, especially services over which they have strictly enforced monopolies, are objectively good for everyone, but that's a different discussion entirely. You're concerned that people simply _don't_ agree with the state's agenda? Why on Earth is that a bad thing? We should have learned well enough by now that universally powerful states are a _not_ good for us, why should we wish to have a populace that simply tolerates all the whims of the state?
@@robertmartin6800 This is some ancap logic and it's depressing.
A state declaring a deal with Prager U is a genuine disaster for the students of that state.
It's still wild to me that people seriously still believe that a free market will always be competitive. Just look at the real world. A free (i.e. unregulated) market favors and therefore tends towards monopoly. Sure, it takes some time for one entity to establish itself, but without regulating the established entities, they are basically encouraged to pursue anti-competitive tactics in order to keep the market mostly to themselves (see all the pseudo-monopolies we already have). Anyone who claims to want a competitive free market needs to be in favour of busting all the monopolies, not just the ones they dislike, or be labelled a hypocrite.
Sorry for the rant
Ah but you see, things like monopolies and regulatory capture aren't "real capitalism." So if those things happen, it's because we did capitalism wrong. "How?" you ask. Simple! Trying to regulate the market is bad, because of... reasons! Like greed! Yeah, you can't trust the government to regulate the market because humans are greedy, which is bad! Except when capitalists do it, because then it's good, because capitalism is good. Don't think too hard about who helped those greedy government officials into power or anything, either, that'll lead you straight towards communism, which is bad!
@@JETAlone12 The funny thing is the last true monopoly was formed at a time when there was the least regulation of the market and businesses.😆
Well said. Regulation is necessary for a healthy market. OVER regulation can lead to government corruption (*cough* CHINA *cough*), but there is a healthy middle ground. MOST things have a healthy middle ground, but we seem to have all forgotten that these days.
John stossel And mentis wave have done videos on education and free markets
@@1845netyou can always tell who actually took an Econ class and read Adam Smith versus took a business class and just regurgitated "consumer protection bad"
As a teacher who has been teaching for 10 years in title I schools I 100% agree with your assessment here. I have been saying for YEARS that they don't want us to be successful. Every year we get more and more procedures, rules, strategies and required tasks that do absolutely NOTHING to help our students. It makes it look like we are responding to current data, but it does nothing to improve student outcomes. If you really want education to be successful, ask a teacher. A REAL teacher who has worked in the trenches for years and has been subject to the yearly changes as a classroom teacher.
Is this part of the problem of increasing administration size regardless of student population size? Am I overstating that or understating it?
yea, I feel like this vid could have gone harder on the point that anyone without money is just strait F-ed in their voucher world. doomed to run factories or tote a gun for a change to move up
Godspeed.
My dad is a teacher at a public school and he's a right-winger who thinks public schools are making kids woke (even though they let him put up misogynistic and transphobic memes on his wall). You shouldn't ask *a* teacher how education can be successful. Multiple? Maybe. But *a* teacher? There's a very high chance that that will backfire.
Yes, we're angry with Administration, but it was the Obama Administration that spearheaded this movement.
Right wingers may be spewing ignorance and brainwash on social politics, but the reason teachers are quitting is due to district policies and having their hands bound.
I'm a professor in a social sciences dept that is getting gutted because the institution is tripling down in Stem focus. Tenured faculty getting cut and everything. Thank you for this, it rings very true to what we are seeing up here. The "it's just business" and job market prep rhetoric, in particular.
A person cannot properly engage with the social sciences without a strong STEM background.
@@iivin4233Can you clarify your statement?
You got it backwards bud.
@@iivin4233 and vice versa. The ethical debates around AI tools are a textbook illustration of why Stem students require a rigorous trailing in philosophy, history, and social sciences. Not to mention just learning to see through the hype machine to understand the actual added value of products and proposals to society.
I'm one of a small number of stem students at my school, we rag on the social sciences alot because they are pretty poorly managed. But admittedly, that's not the entire problem. Our school is suffering from financial troubles in general ( open enrollment+ second lowest tuition in the state). I'm just worried for the future, this school saved me and I feel so lost
The war on education and a lot of the issues that then stem from it is a massive part of why I’ve decided that I will not become a teacher, even though I’ve wanted to for most of my life. At the end of the day, I do not want to be a trans person in a classroom. Ever. That seems like maybe one of the most dangerous places for me to be in unfortunately. Thankfully, I’ve recently discovered that I have another passion, law. Hopefully with the knowledge I have about education and civil rights, maybe I’ll be able to make positive changes in the legal world :)
Really sorry this has happened to you❤
Well-educated, well-informed citizens are far less likely to vote ultraconservative than other voters. A good education that includes subjects such as civics, economics, social studies, and American history prepares students to play a more acyive and more responsible role in American democracy.
Today's Republican party has no interest in education.
It's not a matter of voting or which party is in power. The Democrat and Republican party both serve the same cabal of billionaires. There is no functional difference between them, and there sure as hell isn't any democracy. The US is the Antichrist. Act accordingly.
When you referred to students as the product of this factory it all just clicked for me. Never been prouder to be an “bad” (rebellious, critical thinking) citizen
Chile did that. Privatized education, lots of charter schools, demand that is financed in stead of supply, standaryzed testing to measure quality, etc. Our education system is market-based. It is also a DISASTER. Friedman policies were impossed in the dictadorship and have been extremely difficult to reverse. If you want an example of why education shouldn't follow market rules, look at what happened in Chile.
This is video is really well done. Thank you!
I’m a native Oklahoman and I have a lot of friends who are educators. I have watched them die inside thanks to Pregar U and Ryan Walter’s. I am saddened and very, very angry.
I will never understand the thinking behind turning institutions into businesses. Somehow people think they're going to provide the same service AND make a profit for less money than the government spends on just providing the service. How in the world does that make any sense? It seems like our educational system really has failed when so many people are unable to see that you can't provide a service and make a profit for less money than just providing the service without a profit.
Nobody thinks that. People think they can have the profits.
It's not about making sense. It's about greed, plain and simple.
Treating what is a fundamental public utility, meant for the development of a progressive and adaptive advanced society like it's a business seems like the best way to quickly and utterly ruin it
waste you mean?
See also: Public transportation, healthcare.
Love this video, genuinely.
I graduated in 2012 from a Charter School; I had social/'behavioral' issues, and the vast majority of my public school experience, before going Charter, was spent in some form of in-school suspension or other isolation. I was deemed a 'distraction' and basically just left to fend for myself, which often meant having to study, practice, and test in near or complete isolation, with no interaction with other student throughout the day. So when my mom found a scholarship deal for a local Charter school, we both agreed it couldn't be any worse than what I was already dealing with, right? Well...
In my experience, a lot of the work is "self-lead," which pretty much means that for each class, you are given a thick packet of work and a textbook, and that's all of your work for the semester. You can take it home if you want, and if you finish the work before the semester is over, you can test out of that class early and move on to the next semester's work. For certain classes, they had a more 'traditional classroom' approach or would hire grad students to help teach certain subjects.
My particular school was owned and operated by an extremely far-right boomer power couple who never missed an opportunity to shove hyper-conservative doctrine down our throats. Our government class frequently included sitting down to watch Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. I really wish I was joking. The curriculum was lousy with shit like that.
If it hadn't been my only option to graduate on time, I would have gotten out of there in my sophomore year. But when I tried to test back into public school, the curriculum was so different from what I had been learning the last 2 years, it would have been impractical to spend even more time studying just to finish out my last 2 years in public...
And now it's 11 years later, they graduated me, but withheld my diploma because my mom couldn't afford the final year's tuition. I started paying them back what I could after I graduated, but then one day they closed down and moved away. Haven't been able to find them, so I couldn't pay them back if I wanted to. So now I'm almost 30, no HS diploma even though I graduated, and no option other than GED to get one.
Wow. This is the worst charter school story I have ever heard. I’m so sorry you’ve had to go through this.
Can you sue them? You were literally robbed.
Rush "the rape police" Limbaugh.
And yet, the story gets worse from there.
@@doodlesyoru2108 I tried speaking to a lawyer at one point. They explained that my mom's scholarship deal she made with the school (long story, but she made their website for them and did other work for them to make tuition cheaper) constitutes a "verbal contract," and so we would have to pay them, basically.
I have no idea where the former owners of the school even live nowadays... or if they're even still alive...
I wrote a paper in my freshman year of college originally about the CRT thing but had to narrow my scope to the Manhattan Institute and Chris Rufo because of how deep the rabbit hole went. Great video!
This topic hits close to home. I saw my favorite place, my alma mater, New College of Florida being absolutely destroyed and grifted by right wingers. This process hurts my soul and the sense of powerlessness and grief made me unable to explore and talk about this topic. It seems like the whole university system of FL that I cherish is being taken away.
it's already gone
Those damn billionaires in closed door meetings trying to ruin humanity.
She forgot to mention how the illuminati are on the dollar bill, or how they originated in the flat earth beyond the polar ice wall, with their first act being the faking of the moon landing.
My college doesn't have a physics course and I've heard of others having to shut down various science and engineering programs. It isn't even STEM anymore, all anyone cares about is the TM. Namely the intersection at business. In capitalism, everything is a business, and so all that matters is running a business.
@@EchoCian what you meant to say is that in capitalism all that matters is what can provide value to others.
@@EchoCian quite simply put, if certain majors cannot provide much value, the market will select against them.
That's part of the miracle of capitalism we automatically know what things are valuable and what things aren't and the system automatically adjusts accordingly.
My mom works at a middle school. New principal came in replaced everyone and divided everything into separate genders and several did things pushing Christianity. My mom personally knew several queer students that were now being forced to conform to the gender grouping against their wishes.
The principal was surely ousted a lynched i'm presuming?
Lawsuit time
Unless that middle school is a charter school, I'm pretty sure that's illegal. I'm no lawyer, though.
Was it for sex ed?
Theyll get over it
Honestly turing everything into a market doesn’t serve anyone except people who have the most access to capital, resources, & wealth. We gotta get back to doing things because it’s what should be done, not because “the market” decides
Well yeah that's the end goal. To hoard all the opportunity and resources and force the rest of us back to Serfdom
Pressed play, took my attention of the video, looked again at 9:39 and thought “I’m back in high school”. Love your presentation style.
6.2% of jobs are STEM jobs, yet this has become the end all be all of education.
While simultaneously all funding for STEM subjects at school is being cut. Makes you wonder.
You didn't have language classes in school? What a weird ass school you must have gone to.
It’s being cut because it’s a fad.
That's because we move so many STEM jobs to other countries where public education is properly funded.
Actually, 24% of jobs are stem jobs, which is significantly higher than what you described. Furthermore, stem subjects are important to education because stem is quite literally science, technology, engineering, and math.
1. Science is important because it helps the community as a whole understand pressing issues like global warming, which means more people will be exposed to it and we will be more likely to develop solutions for it.
2. Technology is important because it's the device you're reading this on.
3. Engineering created cars and industrialization.
4. Math is important because...well it's math. Everyone should be able to do some degree of math, and I understand one could argue "oh then just teach addition and multiplication and be done with it!" but I say we are stuck with this system now because it's hard to make change. It's hard to create paths in the public education system. Standardization will always be easier and it's important to keep this extra education of calculus and statistics, not because everyone will use it in their day to day lives, but because *some* will and we need to keep options open for everyone. It's better to be overeducated than under. Additionally, there are vocational/technical public high schools open for students, so it's not exactly the end all be all.
I just came out of being forced to sit through Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla’s documentary No Safe Spaces TWICE, so this was such a breath of unimaginable fresh air.
Agree. I hate it when people in universities are allowed to think for themselves. So frustrating! 😤😤
@@PremiumToad stfu. stop projecting you fascist
@@PremiumToad God, it’s so annoying that people like Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens are being silenced merely for racism and classism when there is still open, honest debate to be had about these subjects. I mean, what else will be silenced next? The clinical fact that men have one less rib than women? The right to smoke in public?
@@timothymcqueen3408 Yeah I know right? Lets just accuse them of racism without much evidence! This works every time!
@@PremiumToad I feel like we're not on the same page here.
As someone who is pro homeschool, I’m confused by one thing… All these people who want their kids in homeschool, do they really all have the money for that? I believe education needs to be more individualized and setting students to standardize tests, strict bell schedules, strict eating schedules, and strict bathroom breaks is not helpful for every child. In the middle and high school, our first break for the day was 15 minutes. It really feels like they’re just preparing you for the workforce and not much else. They did not even teach us how to do taxes. The public education system is broken, but even someone like me who wants to homeschool, like we can’t afford it, and would then prefer to send my daughter somewhere, safe and caring while I work to support her.
Yasss girl I needed someone to put it all together for me, thank you!
As an engineer in my mid 50s, the attack on education horrifies me.
@@chris135x Banning books, Mom's for Liberty. There's more, but as a MAGA asshat, you are not worth the time.
@@chris135x You are literally trying to BAN books, isolate the wealthy from the “normal” people so that only the wealthy people can get good education, trying to limit people’s rights to expression! What is that if not an attack?!?
@@chris135xsee video above
@@chris135xI sincerely disagree with the notion that that man could ever be considered a "credible source." Someone who's against minimum wage and the banning DDT (a known carcinogen), while estoling the benefits of dissolving the FDA and SUING FACT-CHECKERS is not a safe source. Please expand your horizons and find someone else to cite.
@@overlordfemto7523how about you come back when you are more constructive. Can't take you seriously right now lmai
"they want people just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork" -George Carlin
I’ve been teaching English and ESL in a low-income district high school for the last 26 years. We have so many ESL students we are able to host homogeneous sheltered classrooms sorted by WIDA level.
This video is good but it ignores the uncomfortable reality that this war on public schools is NOT an exclusively “right-wing” thing. If only it were. I can’t tell for sure but I suspect Zoebee is not old enough to have taught through the Obama presidency (or as I call it, “the Obama Inquisition”).
I was raised in a liberal Democrat household and considered myself to be a liberal Democrat when I voted for Obama during his first run. I liked him. He was extremely charismatic, and as a Democrat I felt certain that he would do his best to rein in the madness of the NCLB policy that had been signed into law by GWB. Plus, of course, I was proud to be part of the historic election of our nation’s first Black president.
And then Obama proceeded to stab public school teachers like myself in the back. For the next eight years, he twisted the knife. He doubled down on NCLB, appointed Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education, and gave his full endorsement to the witch hunt for “bad teachers”. When Central Falls, the district neighboring my own, made international news when its superintendent announced her plan to fire every teacher in the district’s high school as NCLB allowed her to do, Obama weighed in by comparing CF high unfavorably to a local charter (The Met); that’s when I knew what a deceiver he was because the Met’s scores on the almighty NECAP tests were LOWER than CF high’s.
For years I labored under a regime that demanded we achieve the literally impossible goal of making every student in the ESL category “proficient” by 2015, when once ESL students became fluent enough they were removed from the category, while new beginner ESL students were constantly being added.
And Democrats APPLAUDED this nonsense. Understand that I was pointing out a lot of what Zoebee talks about here back then, and it generally fell on deaf ears because Republicans didn’t give a damn (for reasons she outlines here) and NEITHER DID DEMOCRATS. You had astroturf groups like Democrats For Education Reform and the CANs (of which RI-CAN was the local chapter) pushing their propaganda and a left that really had zero interest in finding flaw in the education policies of “their” president. And it didn’t help that we were saddled with Broad Superintendent Academy graduate Deborah Gist as our Commissioner of Education in my state (multibillionaire Eli Broad, who founded and ran the Academy in order to position his minions in key education positions around the country, is a good example of a Democrat who schemes to push the war on public education in hopes of making some money off of charters).
Ironically, things got better under Trump because he was a bonehead and appointed the walking screwball comedy Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, replacing the slick and wily Arne Duncan. Eli Broad himself protested her appointment not because she disagreed with anything he was pushing, but because he *knew* her and he knew she was a boob whose eminently punchable face was going to become the new face of the charter movement.
TL; DR I liked this video and agree with what the creator is saying but she fails to call out the many many actors on the left who also fund, applaud, and abet the war on public education she is talking about. I learned the hard way - from having my nose rubbed in it for close to a decade - that while the Republicans might be a gun in the face for public schools, the Democrats were a knife in their back.
Very well said, I just want to add, Few under 35 who self identify as a leftist considersl Democrats "left", or legitimate as an opposition party, etc.
@@crackthefoundation_ yeah democrats are fundamentally a rightwing party just not as rightwing as the republicans only a few democrats can even be considered center left like bernie and technically he isn't a democrat
As someone who is on the Autism Spectrum, and someone who made use of special education services, the removal and cuts of them is going to hurt students who need them. Special Education is important. Whether it's co-taught classes, or something like an IEP, it helps those students learn effectively.
And some charter schools will be built with that in mind, in order to attract those students and the funding which comes with them.
@@me-myself-i787 Charter Schools may not be accessible to some families. With special education services in public schools, it makes it much more accessible.
@@zdelrod829 That makes sense. Many regions don't have a high enough population density to accommodate multiple schools.
Although, they could always move somewhere near a charter school which accommodates them.
Like how my parents moved to where we live because of the great selection of secondary schools in the area, including some of the best in the country.
@@me-myself-i787Do you think everyone has the resources to move house just so their kid can go to a school that may or may not be able to accomidate them specifically?
@@ScorpionClaws789 Most people already live in the population-dense regions which are likely to end up with the widest variety of charter schools, including ones for special needs students.
Educating the poors is potentially threatening to the control the rich have over everything. We learn that in the schools for rich people
lol as if educating poor can really make any difference for rich in this captalistic world ,bro no one can do shit
@@saisohan2409 I'm not sure if the point you're trying to make is "We should establish a more humane and sustainable socioeconomic system than capitalism," or "Give up trying to change anything, and learn to suck it up with the system we live in now."
The first one I agree with, the other one not so much.
@@saisohan2409pessimist loser !
@@saisohan2409that exact same sentiment is what poor people have because lower class and minorities have been oppressed by this system for so long that we have entirely lost patriotism and gave up on even trying to vote. “Because nothing is ever going to change.” Nothing will ever change UNLESS WE FIGHT TOGETHER FOR OUR RIGHTS TO A PROPER UNBIASED EDUCATION AND FIGHT FOR WHO WE REALLY WANT TO REPRESENT US.
@@roxanne_ is the thing is even if we provide unbiased education things wont change
I'll give part of my experience at school. It was horrible. I grew up in Texas, I'm an atheist, I was in a very broken, dysfunctional, violent, abusive family and on top of that the teachers themselves were my bullies in high school, not the students. It felt like school was already so controlled and regulated that it felt impossible to actually shut out everything else and actually learn something meaningful, even when I had some brilliant teachers I will never forget, all I can remember during their class is being overwhelmed all the time. The last thing a kid in school needs is to have his parents and some church police what they can and can't learn or study or pursue. I mean, there are a ton of scientists who ARE Christians! Are these people really so conceited they need to ruin their child's chances at finding what they truly love because a loose compilation of fairy tales from the desert told them to? It's like if my child truly wanted to devote themselves to religion, I would not stop them and I would only encourage them to do it, but I would heavily advise them that I support them as long as their practice does not hurt others. The minute it hurts a single person, I will no longer support it.
I personally hate capitalizing the school system, I'm Canadian and at least in the province I live in, public education is the primary form of schooling, it's very well funded by the government compared to a certain neighbour, and the system tries to be as diverse as possible by allowing publically funded programs to exist within the schools as well as alternative schools that provide specific education or alternative education methods (private schools still exist but they're not really worth it from what I can tell unless you're SUPER against the education system or for some other reason)
The government also has special accounts they can help parents set up for their children's future education called an RESP, and every year the government will contribute a certain amount into the account until your child is legally an adult, at which point the money can EXCLUSIVELY be used for education purposes such as tuition for university
And yes University is also publicly funded, but theres not enough money in the system to allow them to run on those funds alone
The idea of turning education into a market or product is disgusting to me and shows how some people see basic human rights as products to be bought and sold
How long ago did you go to school in Canada???
All of them contains insane amounts of asbestos and we never get new books, only "new" used books that are already old
“… if that change comes at the cost at our last universal public good, we will not get it back.” That gave me chills, so poignant
Its also an admission its a lot less popular than she frames it is, otherwise the people would just vote it back in much like they already do on abortion.
Being German, and a teacher and parent, I couldn't help but notice that again we're following US trends, just always lagging behind a few years. When nationalism, religion (or ultraconservatism, name it whatever you like...) and big money politics join to "reform" society, there's a serious threat on the horizon. So thanks for doing this job! Please keep arguing for a better (albeit often imperfect) sytem where humanist ideas still count more than corporate value, as they still do for a lot of people. Let's keep that spark alive!
Same thing for here in Canada. I hate how much the American talking points eventually gets spread to other countries
Absolutly. I kept thinking we aren't there yet, but it's going to be a problem soon.
Same here in Italy, plus openly fascist people in positions of power...
It's just too sad to think about sometimes 😥
The only good thing about this is that in most cases the changes will still be watered down to some degree before they reach the eastern shores of the Atlantic, avoiding some of the most stupid fringe ideas from the US...
The fact that you corrently pluralised curriculum made my classicist heart so happy
Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall was not suppose to be a blueprint on how to run schools.