US K-12 Education Failures
The cluster focuses on critiques of the American public K-12 education system, debating its broken state, failed policies, reforms, political influences, and lack of accountability.
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Education policy is a political topic. Get it off HN.
Education policy is a political topic, get it off HN.
Assertion: The American K-12 school system is broken in huge ways. Let's talk about it!
If what you're saying is true, then why did the school system say this would fix education?
The blogger is writing about what's happening in maybe 4 (top) schools. The rest of the country doesn't have this "problem."Why the downvotes?
Now tell me which side destroyed education.
The comment was actually a critique of the US education system :)
It's an unfortunate reality that many schools in the US are under the governance of people pushing the exact screeds the schools should be teaching kids to criticize. Is it any wonder we have an education crisis in this country?
You touches on a critical aspect of educational reform
It's not that many schools and they stopped the policy again...To my mind, the outrage is somewhat exaggerated. You could call it "outrage fetishism about culture war issues". Also an opportunity for "smart people" to feel good about "how they managed to learn things despite having to go to school" and how much better they think they could organize the school system, or how much smarter they would have been if no schools had existed.Yes, maybe the stated