Hot Take: The average Amerikkkan still has better educational opportunities than most of humanity. (hexbear.net)

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As such blaming Amerikkkan fascist brainworms on "poor education" is really just apologia for Amerikkkan complicity in oppressive systems that benefit them.

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[-] Chana@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

US education is usually poorly funded and supplemented by local levies so that poor areas get worse resources and the teachers that can make poor pay work while rich areas have fancy schools and can hire anyone. The poor areas generally need more resources, not fewer, to reach parity, because there is more need for things like free food (US schools usually hold back food from poor kids), transportation, and after school programs.

On top of this, the US is socially bankrupt. Community is regularly disrupted and so even is the capitalist nuclear family. Kids are raised in abusive conditions and have high stress households with reactionary parents that often do not care for their kids when they step outsids their preferred views. Students are often tired, hungry, and stressed. So even when they have "access" and "opportunity" on paper, they can't make use of it, logistically or emotionally. They're told to have drive while also lacking the energy and support to make themselves a sandwich.

So most US citizens can't read at a "high school level".

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wrote up a whole essay saying I agree with you BUT...

Then I hit discard because it was a jumbled mess 😅.

I will say that I know there is no classes except the working class, but there are significant differences between Americans living in poverty compared to the (dwindling) middle class and upper class.

If you don't have to work throughout high school, have private SAT tutoring starting your freshman year, and still have free time to doom scroll on social media, it kinda feels inexcusable to be so ignorant about the world around you.

I went to school in a pretty diverse area (economically speaking), there were kids who should have known better. You have access to the world's information at your fingertips and you still hold corrupted views about your own neighbors and loved ones based on their gender, race, or socioeconomic status.

I'm gonna say a hot take but I think americans should be treated the same way as 'israelis'. No need for coddling or excuses anymore, time and time again we have shown what america's culture is about. I've broken bread with literal war criminals who gloated about what they've done at the dinner table.

Our society is inexcusable, and should be treated as such.

EDIT: ALSO ON THIS, "PROGRESSIVE" CALIFORNIA LITERALLY VOTED TO KEEP SLAVERY LIKE THIS YEAR, THIS COUNTRY IS DISGUSTING!