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Krinios
@krinios.com

remembering how bad the education system was when I grew up in South Florida and realizing how much worse it’s actually going to become we’re raising a new generation of kids who will not know how to fundamentally read or understand history in a way that they’ll actually care about, scary as hell

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Strawberry
@strwlem.bsky.social

Texan resident here. I moved around the state quite a bit during my childhood and I remember being in the 5th grade and learning how behind that district my previous one was. By no means was the previous district was great (it was bad), but it was shocking to see that my new classmates at my new

Strawberry
@strwlem.bsky.social

school were barely going over things that I had learned at the end of the 3rd grade. They were all behind academically in all four core subjects. I had to help my teachers explain these things to my classmates in a way they could understand. We were halfway through the school year when we found out

Strawberry
@strwlem.bsky.social

that they didn’t even know prime numbers or how to do basic multiplication or division. I can’t even begin to imagine how much worse it’s going to get for the generation currently in school or about to enter it. The government is dumbing down these kids for their personal gain in the present with

Strawberry
@strwlem.bsky.social

absolutely no regard for how this will destroy our future as a nation. Censoring history that “paints America bad”, banning books, wanting to dismantle the Depart of Education, it all comes down to trying to create a society where people aren’t supposed to think for themselves and criticize their

jazrelle
@sleepysapphic.bsky.social

i remember having teachers that were only there because they were short staff. my freshman year english teacher quit a week before the school yr started so i had a sub for like 90% of that year. there's also the classic sports coach teaching the subject and not caring about it

jazrelle
@sleepysapphic.bsky.social

a fun story i love telling people is when i was taking driver's ed i had signed up for the fall semester so when december rolled around and the weather dropped, my driving instructor refused to teach us cus it was so cold. i had to have points added to my driving exam cus of the time missed

mc
@mc395686.bsky.social

So I actually am a teacher(sorta); I work at a preschool. 70% of what we do is trying to get kids to follow the rules and listen to us. Sure, we teach, but I’m telling kids to behave than anything. It’s a huge problem.