I found this podcast from this 
post:
I subbed today for a 7th and 8th grade teacher. I’m not exaggerating when I say at least 50% of the students were at a 2nd grade reading level. The students were to spend the class time filling out an “all about me” worksheet, what’s your name, favorite color, favorite food etc. I was asked 20 times today “what is this word?”. Movie. Excited. Trait. “How do I spell race car driver?”
I've only listened to one episode so far, but it's really well produced, seems well-researched and very well put together.
From what I gather so far, the ways that the American public school system "teaches" kids how to read is not only completely wrong, but actually saddles them bad habits which fundamentally hinder their reading comprehension.
A huge swath of American adults are functionally illiterate, and I think I'm starting to understand why.
Bill "The Good Billionaire" Gates saw to that about 20 years ago and it started with an amazing piece of neoliberal propaganda called "Waiting For Superman." His buddy in the "reform" movement was
, by the way, and even arranged to have special uncredentialed classes full of "students" to victimize in his spare time.
The real shit is when you realize that Bill Gates (and most other western "philanthropy" in Africa) is basically just privatizing public services while simultaneously exerting a extreme degree of personal control over the educational curriculum of almost an entire continent.
He isn't being nice, he's building a pool of human resources, for anything he wants.
And they will call him a saint for it.
Gates isn't some scheming evil supermind. He's just a clueless mf in a vile system, thinking he's doing good.
I struggle to believe that:
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/08/bill-gates-global-health-policy/
"Wah, greyzone"
It's well-sourced and from three years ago when they were less weird.
While the article made me rethink my initial statement, Gates still strikes me as a
type who has convinced himself that what he does will save the world. I also think Gates believes in eugenics
sounds like something a PR team would want to propagandize people into believing
Melinda straight up left his ass the second the Epstein connections came to light. I don't think he's entirely clueless.
I don't think she was either
Exactly, she left once they became public. Proximity to power is a helluva drug
Sounds like a lost Nietzche manuscript.
Godot vs Superman: Infinity Wait.