Comment on We can play that game too

• phx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The underfunding or undercutting of education is a big part of why we’re in the current situation

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  • MisterOwl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup, stupid people vote Republican. Their war on education will only end when their party is dead, burned, buried, and pissed on.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      stupid people vote Republican

      That’s not true, though. Partisanship is far more tied up with local industry than individual intelligence or educational attainment.

      People who earn money in Republican friendly industries vote Republican.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve heard this argument before. It seems to neglect how much modern libertarian ideology is packed into the modern school curriculum.

    Conservatives scream about education being Marxist and Woke. Thousands of teachers are purged. Curriculum gets ratcheted further to the right. And by the time your own kids are going to school, they’re asking why history textbooks are venerating Newt Gingrich, bio textbooks include disclaimers decrying evolution and germ theory, and math class is just 8 hours a week of long division exercises the whole semester.

    But you can’t just pretend we’re living in a Shepard Tone of a society, because we’re here now in spite of “superior” education we received a generation or two ago.

    We can’t just blame this on “schools make you smart/dumb” because so much of your modem understanding of the world is formed after you’ve graduated.

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