Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?
djsoren19@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I dunno your country or your premise, but I can state pretty confidently that the American school system is completely and utterly failing to prepare Gen Z. Working adjacent to the schools, even amongst the best and brightest the country has to offer are thousands of students who fundamentally do not know how to think for themselves about anything.
All this to say, depending on if you’re in the U.S., things might just keep getting worse. Especially if you’re living in a deeply conservative state, I would not be surprised if the number really was 90%. It’s really sad, but that’s what happens when you attack public schools for decades.
chitak166@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s sad is, that’s the point. That’s how they get prepared for the future.
A future where they work for their rulers and don’t cause controversy.
OhFudgeBars@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not a teacher, but what I keep reading is that they’re trying not to get pilloried by students’ screaming MAGA parents.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 11 months ago
It’s not necessarily the teachers’ fault. Most of the teachers I’ve talked to legitimately want to help students. The issue is the administrations. I have school counselors who are refusing to write letters of recommendation for full-ride scholarships. Principals who don’t know what a pdf is. Testing coordinators who literally cannot read.
It infuriates me that most of the money that goes to schools ends up in the pockets of these administrative bureaucrats that do not care about children in the slightest. At best they are grossly incompetent, at worst they are actively malicious.
chitak166@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s definitely not their fault, per se.
They’re just doing their job. It’s how the system is set up.
The best teachers I’ve had were ones that routinely went outside of the curriculum to engage with students on a human level.
KarmaTrainCaboose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
See I don’t buy into this. To me, this is getting into seriously conspiracy theory stuff. I don’t think that there is some grand plan to keep people stupid so that they don’t cause trouble.
I think the system just fails at educating students well due to a variety of factors.