tastemyglaiveIs everyone in America just constantly crashing out right now, or acting normal by their standards?
disregardableBehavioral standards plummeted during the pandemic and never recovered. People are a lot more stressed, and they refuse to behave. We’re divided, and it really does not help that our leadership literally believes that AI is going to replace most jobs.
How are the schools
MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]Hectic and our teachers are constantly complaining about how kids can’t do basic reading comprehension tasks. Like copy a sentence from the board into their notebook and then repeat it back to you in their own words. There are 13 year olds who cannot do this. There are adults who can’t do this. The majority of Americans read at or below the level of an 11 year old.
Actually attempting to come back to this thread now and it’s hard not to shimmer out of this plane of reality with anger
I live in a rural area in the US. Public school teachers are generally very good at their jobs, but a lot of the school boards around me have been taken over by the far right and so-called conservatives. They run on platforms like “ending forced vaccines for children” and banning transgender flags and they mostly win because there’s a lot of dumb racists here.
ickplantWhat do you mean by that? The standards of education or mental health in schools?
In the U.S., schools are funded by property taxes, so schools in rich areas are fine, although educational standards suck across the nation.
Your personal impressions based on either your consumption of social science papers, rumors, or gathered by hearsay and lived experience.
Mostly okay. Slow discussion building on why test scores are dropping and are they still dropping. Is it Covid (immeidate shock), Long Covid (long term health issues), or nearly all course work and books being on tiny laptop screens.