Kab9260 t1_iu43f0p wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:25 PM

The biggest source of stress that I’ve observed is that kids got used being spoon-fed the answers to everything and their parents got accustomed to the same. There’s no engagement in the learning process and parents put the burden on teachers to overcome this (instead of demanding accountability from their kids). Kids are struggling to solve problems on their own.

We need to rethink secondary education. It should be preparing students to solve problems, learn on their own, and be a functioning adult. Instead, the purpose is just college admissions (even for students who aren’t ready for college or would find a better fit in the trades). We need to break free of the post secondary educational industrial complex.

SyndicalistCPA t1_iu46v3v wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:54 PM

Not even college admissions. Kids are being taught to pass standardized tests instead of how to think and process information and if they fail the school gets less money. Add to that, that class rooms are too big and teachers are underpaid for how vital they are too society (unlike police, which take up huge chunks of a town's budget). Then you have the administrative bloat. Just an entire recipe for disaster.

RosaKlebb t1_iu6jxun wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:51 PM

Even the SAT over the years has gotten piss easier compared to past generations of it when you’d actually get nailed for incorrect answers and the “omit” option was a matter of score preservation.

I could almost half ass be convinced it was intentional to pad numbers and have more kids being eligible for schools that cost more, ultimately feeding the loan beast.