I'm going to guess these are examples in an area where the largest population of the school is "diverse". What will that mean? Cut the legs off the better schools and make sure they are all this bad. I'm also going to guess the teacher decline coincided with all the teachers giving more of a shit about gender and faggotry than education. Many of the things they mention are problems that my old school teachers solved by just plain not allowing the shit. Calculators, phones, Google (well that didn't exist yet, but Yahoo did)? All things that would have been forbidden in many/most cases.
I wish my youngest nephew wasn't about to start school or I could talk my brother out of it, he's 4 and can do close to half this list. At best, he's going to be fucking bored.
What little research I’ve seen suggests that low IQ largely cannot be fixed, but high IQ can absolutely be sabotaged. So ensuring equality of outcome by hacking down the smart kids is going to end up averaging us out much lower. Hopefully not so low that we lose indoor plumbing.
I think a lot of places plumbing requires electricity. California is already on the verge of failing to provide that, and South Africa is post-that. South Africa really is a model for where they want everyone to go. I don't know why people don't pay more attention. Maybe they figure it's because SA is in Africa so they're just screwed anyways. But that's not how I see it. SA is the UN's model country.
Sadly, it's everywhere. Even honor students in nice schools are years behind in academics, life skills, and social skills because of the lockdowns and phone addiction.
They towered over us, gleaming dully, three stories tall, steel dinosaurs. Dust mantled
them. Rust blossoms patterned their hides in complex overlays that made them look like
they'd been draped in oriental rugs. Pentagonal bolts as big as my hands studded their
armored plating and stitched together the vast sectioned pipes that spanned the
darkness and shot down black tunnels in every compass direction, reaching for every
neighborhood in the city. Moisture jewels gleamed and dripped from ancient joints. The
pumps thrummed on. Perfectly designed. Forgotten by everyone in the city above. Beasts
working without complaint, loyal despite abandonment.
Except that one of them had now gone silent.
I stifled an urge to get down on my knees and apologize for neglecting them, for
betraying these loyal machines that had run for more than a century.
Yeah they tried that with the older nephew after about a year of school wanting to push him to a doctor of course for ADHD or whatever. Yeah, that kid has no problem with a deficit of attention, if it's something he's interested in it will wear my attention out hours before he's done with it. It's because school is boring.
I'm going to guess these are examples in an area where the largest population of the school is "diverse". What will that mean? Cut the legs off the better schools and make sure they are all this bad. I'm also going to guess the teacher decline coincided with all the teachers giving more of a shit about gender and faggotry than education. Many of the things they mention are problems that my old school teachers solved by just plain not allowing the shit. Calculators, phones, Google (well that didn't exist yet, but Yahoo did)? All things that would have been forbidden in many/most cases.
I wish my youngest nephew wasn't about to start school or I could talk my brother out of it, he's 4 and can do close to half this list. At best, he's going to be fucking bored.
What little research I’ve seen suggests that low IQ largely cannot be fixed, but high IQ can absolutely be sabotaged. So ensuring equality of outcome by hacking down the smart kids is going to end up averaging us out much lower. Hopefully not so low that we lose indoor plumbing.
I think a lot of places plumbing requires electricity. California is already on the verge of failing to provide that, and South Africa is post-that. South Africa really is a model for where they want everyone to go. I don't know why people don't pay more attention. Maybe they figure it's because SA is in Africa so they're just screwed anyways. But that's not how I see it. SA is the UN's model country.
Sadly, it's everywhere. Even honor students in nice schools are years behind in academics, life skills, and social skills because of the lockdowns and phone addiction.
They towered over us, gleaming dully, three stories tall, steel dinosaurs. Dust mantled them. Rust blossoms patterned their hides in complex overlays that made them look like they'd been draped in oriental rugs. Pentagonal bolts as big as my hands studded their armored plating and stitched together the vast sectioned pipes that spanned the darkness and shot down black tunnels in every compass direction, reaching for every neighborhood in the city. Moisture jewels gleamed and dripped from ancient joints. The pumps thrummed on. Perfectly designed. Forgotten by everyone in the city above. Beasts working without complaint, loyal despite abandonment.
Except that one of them had now gone silent.
I stifled an urge to get down on my knees and apologize for neglecting them, for betraying these loyal machines that had run for more than a century.
Pump Six and Other Stories - Paolo Bacigalupi
That's thr problem all smart kids have now. The lessons are so dumbed down, the boys finish instantly and get bored and restless. So they drug them.
Yeah they tried that with the older nephew after about a year of school wanting to push him to a doctor of course for ADHD or whatever. Yeah, that kid has no problem with a deficit of attention, if it's something he's interested in it will wear my attention out hours before he's done with it. It's because school is boring.
It's the cultural rot write large. You could point to anything. Lack of respect for authority. Screen time. Diversity.