I'd also put No Child Left Behind policies from Bush as a big cause as well for deteriorating even successful schools from places of attempting to learn to "study for the test, only the test matters, be a good little slave and don't think outside the test."
Nah, I was in school when that policy took effect and its effects were noticeable even though I barely knew the greater politics behind it. In fact, I recall very specifically my history teacher having to stop the interesting lesson plans she was using (which helped me remember most of that stuff to this day) to instead use government approved standardized lessons and tests which immediately lost all of our attention.
It was designed to help shitty students from ghetto schools, which it did nothing for, but the only real difference was dragging down schools which were doing fine to those ghetto levels.
I'd also put No Child Left Behind policies from Bush as a big cause as well for deteriorating even successful schools from places of attempting to learn to "study for the test, only the test matters, be a good little slave and don't think outside the test."
Bush and the right blamed racism and bad teachers, the left blames racism and lack of funding. They're both wrong. It's the students.
Nah, I was in school when that policy took effect and its effects were noticeable even though I barely knew the greater politics behind it. In fact, I recall very specifically my history teacher having to stop the interesting lesson plans she was using (which helped me remember most of that stuff to this day) to instead use government approved standardized lessons and tests which immediately lost all of our attention.
It was designed to help shitty students from ghetto schools, which it did nothing for, but the only real difference was dragging down schools which were doing fine to those ghetto levels.
Everyone must graduate and get a diploma policies mean the diploma is of next to no real value.