←back to thread

193 points bilsbie | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
csense ◴[] No.46000402[source]
Anecdotally, two factors at work here:

- Schools have stopped educating in favor of test metrics, making sure the worst students pass, and pushing borderline indoctrination of controversial, left-ish values.

- With remote education during the pandemic, people have more visibility into their school's day-to-day teaching.

It's hard to fix the US education system by political means. If you have the ability to do so, it's comparatively much easier to pull your kids out and homeschool them.

replies(9): >>46000489 #>>46000937 #>>46001208 #>>46007319 #>>46007615 #>>46008236 #>>46008238 #>>46008266 #>>46008309 #
1. jrm4 ◴[] No.46008266[source]
Another nebulous but I think VERY observable factor would be the extent to which "parents are, and expected to be, involved in their kids school stuff."

Anecdotally, but I bet you see a lot of it, I can count on one, maybe two hands the number of times my parents went to anything at the school to see me do a thing. And for my kids, there's something just about every other week.