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The Post: G.E.T. R.E.A.L! – E: Education Reform
The Commenter: Publius
The schools aren’t perfect and share a portion of blame for sure, spending all their spare money on additional useless admin that don’t discipline, don’t give classroom support, don’t do their job of iep compliance, just sit there and try and enforce DEI and useless PD rather than trying to attract the best and brightest teachers with attractive salaries.
But we can’t forget to blame what we know to be the largest driver of student success.
Parents
Parents aren’t reading to their kids anymore, they aren’t fostering a love of learning, a sense of discipline, and a sense of respect
The parents plop their kids down in front of a screen for hours at a time, the almighty tablet has become their one stop shop for entertainment on demand. They then get a smart phone with all the quick-dopamine hits that give them easy highs and terrible lows when comparing themselves to everyone else. This constant connection to everything enables round the clock bullying too, and not to mention how that affects their attention span in the classroom, where they are truly addicted to the screen.
It’s an old comic at this point demonstrating the generational gap where a kid gets bad grades and the older generation asks the child what they did wrong, where the modern generation asks the teacher what they did wrong.
The covid years showed us how many parents don’t even care about the school teaching their kids anything but so many just care about it being free daycare.
As a society we once greatly valued education, but that has slowly been chipped away to ensure a generation of obedient, mindless slaves.
