Our Education System is Broken

[desecration]

Competition, the American Way

Various studies show different percentages, but all show that most students don’t complete, or even enter, college. Studies also show that fewer young people are even applying to college.

This is a real, self-imposed crisis. It also has a major impact on many of those in poorer circumstances or who get bored with college prep courses and drop out of school before graduating.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Competition, the American Way

Republicans have destroyed the educational system.

 

[ll74]

Capitalism won't fix things.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The kids are dropped off at their prison-like education camps, where they are segregated by age and forced to submit to an outdated national curriculum concocted by some inept bureaucratic process. Here, the inherent curiosities of little unique individuals are smashed out, and their little minds are molded and standardized and taught the “virtue” of conformity and obedience.

They become much like ourselves—well-adjusted disciples of the status quo, well-fed but inwardly starving, and spiritually depleted by a senseless haste that seems to be required to function in modern culture.

~ Erik Rittenberry​

"Inept bureaucratic process" - that about has it.

 

[desecration]

"Inept bureaucratic process" - that about has it.

This describes so much of modern life. 400lb bureaucrats filing/losing paperwork while charging you huge fees. It's a jobs program for sociopaths, incompetents, and the insane.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

This describes so much of modern life. 400lb bureaucrats filing/losing paperwork while charging you huge fees. It's a jobs program for sociopaths, incompetents, and the insane.

Most of whom are in the position not to "serve" the public but because it comes with juicy retirement benefits.

 

[desecration]

Most of whom are in the position not to "serve" the public but because it comes with juicy retirement benefits.

Government seems to be one of our biggest industries. After all, no one seems to care if you accidentally lose a few million here and there.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Government seems to be one of our biggest industries. After all, no one seems to care if you accidentally lose a few million here and there.

The landlady is retired gummint. She's looking for some part-time work, and I have to tell her things about how the private sector works.


"Why do they?"


"It ain't the gummint."


And then we laugh.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The kids are dropped off at their prison-like education camps, where they are segregated by age and forced to submit to an outdated national curriculum concocted by some inept bureaucratic process. Here, the inherent curiosities of little unique individuals are smashed out, and their little minds are molded and standardized and taught the “virtue” of conformity and obedience.

They become much like ourselves—well-adjusted disciples of the status quo, well-fed but inwardly starving, and spiritually depleted by a senseless haste that seems to be required to function in modern culture.

~ Erik Rittenberry​

"Inept bureaucratic process" - that about has it.

Ummm what national curriculum??