• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Public schools are there to provide the bare minimum education for the lowest possible cost. They’re not there to create genius.

    Which is a shame, because there are plenty of very talented kids in those schools who could be genius.

    We need to revolutionize our approach to education if we want to stay competitive as a nation, and that doesn’t come from LESS funding or from having 50 different approaches.

    Pushing it to the states would only make sense if the children of Alabama were tangibly different than the children of Texas. I would love to see someone explain how that’s the case.

    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Public schools are there to provide the bare minimum education for the lowest possible cost. They’re not there to create genius.

      They are now, that’s not how they started way back when. That’s the problem.