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I find it weird how often people here blame American
on America's "awful education system".
Yes, compared to Euro Succ Dem countries our schools such, but on the global scale? Yes the way school funding is structured in America does mean that quality varies a lot by zip code but I feel like even poorer school in the US are still probably better off than most schools in the developing world, if kids in those countries even have access to school at all.
I think you severely overestimate the quality of schools in like, rural Alabama
Also even if the schools are decent there's only so much they can do if students don't give a shit.
I still see the dumbest 1/4 of my graduating class regularly posting how school should have taught them stuff that school taught me while I was sitting g next to them. They just thought they were too cool to pay attention so they snaked a headphone through their hoodie sleeve and nodded off in the back of class.
It's always funny to go back and read the reviews people in my class leave.
Here's one, copied verbatim.
To be honest some teachers are b rated at best they will ignore your child's "needs" that the teachers claims they have then refuse to provide help then allow the teacher to fail the child unless the parent can work at the school I wouldn't submit my children to this place again a few good faculty dont outweigh the bad
Or my personal favorite
Go to school here. The faculty picks favorites (1 star)
And that's in one of the most progressive states in the country
Even in decent public schools, I think a good chunk of students can get shuffled along pretty easily.
I was repeatedly taught the south won the civil war and that we should regularly pray to the American flag
Like I did also get taught stuff like algebra and how to write an essay, sure. But every other second of the day was full of fundamentalist worship of America and the flag and blah blah
At a local community college I took an American history course and the professor taught the civil war as The War of Northern Aggression
Try Katy, TX in the 90s -- I was once involved with someone who grew up there, and claimed to have lived on an anarchist commune during her brief stint in college, and one day she just starts dropping this matter-of-fact "war of northern aggression" / "not about slavery" / "states' rights" bullshit on me out of the blue, having apparently been taught all of it in either middle school or high school history.
Houston-area suburbanites. Not even once.
This was on the outskirts of Houston, so that checks out
We need to shut down Texas until we can figure out what in the hell is going on. ERCOT is already working on it, probably.
Fucking how? I can get someone saying the south were in the right(it's called being a racist), but there is no confederate states anymore. If you try to secede and end up still part of the country, you did not win.
Most of the time it was some religious conceit, like the south still has Christianity therefore they won. It often came down to shifting goal posts or concepts not related to the goals of the confederacy. Like I was told the goal of the north was to make whites into slaves for black people, or to completely erase the southern states, or to eliminate Christianity. These goals weren't accomplished, so this gets spun into a victory for the south somehow. Reminds me of how current day liberals will claim Ukraine is winning because the entire country isn't annexed, even if that wasn't Russia's goal
Wait, European here. The south won?
I grew up in the south, so there's a lot of residual resentment against the outcome of the civil war. This has resulted in a bunch of alt-history where some, particularly racist southerners will claim the south actually won, or should have won, or blah blah.
Never knew that was a thing. I can understand the resentment shortly after the war, but this long..wow. I actually thought education was something agreed upon on a national level.
Yeah education is handled nationally, we have a department of education, but my high school was staffed with unqualified teachers who would flagrantly ignore national standards. My school in particular kept getting lawsuits for making students pray during school hours, for instance.
Iunno my school was a jungle
Well you are mokey