The wealthy want to profit off privatizing the system, treat teachers like replaceable gig workers, and control the curriculum in order to hide their machinations and create ideal workers.
@JYSexton
The wealthy want to profit off privatizing the system, treat teachers like replaceable gig workers, and control the curriculum in order to hide their machinations and create ideal workers.
@JYSexton
The US government not having a national curriculum for education means it’s entirely up to states to decide what they teach their students. And because schools get funding based on how likely it is for a college to accept one of their students (which is determined via sports and testing) the curriculum becomes nothing more than a testing meat grinder.
All of the biases students are taught are subject to the voting habits of the voting population of that state. If the voters put a fascist into the governor’s position, the Commissioner of Education will be whoever they want it to be. And that commissioner can teach students whatever they want, as it’s an unelected position and they only have to answer to the governor. US schools are capitalism factories, because the US is a capitalism factory.
In Texas, in order to graduate you have to take a class that quite literally teaches Texan Nationalism. I took it in 7th grade and it was so mind-numbingly boring.
With Texas, in particular, everything you need to know can be asked by asking a 17yo Texan about the Alamo. They know everything about it, except that it was about defending slavery.