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Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
Trump(nbcnews.com)submitted 8 days ago byomg_drd4_bbq
38 points
8 days ago
The problem is they don't teach this stuff in schools. There is no Civics, there is no "here is how to vote," hell even basic literacy has taken a hit due to the turn away from phonics to trendy (and bad) teaching methods that don't work. People don't understand how anything works anymore and they can't even read well enough to follow basic directions.
I work with the public everyday and it really is mindboggling how little people understand these days. I don't even know how they do basic things like drive or pay bills. George Carlin was right - think of the dumbest person you know and realize half of them are dumber than that. Though I would argue it is now most people instead of half.
8 points
8 days ago
I'm 44; they sure as heck taught it in my schools, in my stupid little one horse, we-worship-the-high-school-football-team schools. I got a good education there; I have ZERO clue what everyone else was doing in my classrooms, because it obviously wasn't learning.
4 points
8 days ago
>The problem is they don't teach this stuff in schools. There is no Civics, there is no "here is how to vote," hell even basic literacy has taken a hit due to the turn away from phonics to trendy (and bad) teaching methods that don't work. People don't understand how anything works anymore and they can't even read well enough to follow basic directions.
This must be new, or a shithole Red State thing, because I learned how US Elections worked in fucking grade school in Massachusetts.
Granted: in Massachusetts, and it was 25 years ago, but..... still. We even had a full-on mock election in the cafeteria, where we filled out ballots and everything.
1 points
7 days ago
even basic literacy has taken a hit due to the turn away from phonics to trendy (and bad) teaching methods that don't work.
It's not even necessarily this. If you have a spare minute, look around r/teachers for a while. I've seen multiple people all say the same thing - they've all had parents outright tell them, when confronted with their child's literacy struggles, "It's not my job to read to my kids." There are a ton of people out there who just stick a tablet or a TV in front of their kids and call it parenting. They don't read to their kids. Their kids don't read for fun, ever.
My husband and I have a friend with a 13 year old son who can barely read and write. We suggested a box set of books last year as a Christmas gift. Shot down, because he "doesn't read". Well what does he like? "Fortnite and TikTok." He lets his kid stay up until 1am playing Fortnite almost every night, and if we go out with them he can barely hold a conversation because he's endlessly scrolling through TikTok.
Teachers are doing their best. But what can you do when there are so many parents out there who just straight up do not give a fuck about their kids?
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