There is a sea-change in the quality of recent college graduates. These are COVID kids entering the workforce. They all but lost an entire year of education, and nobody has made any effort to catch them back up. They are just given a pass, year after year, because, you know, COVID.
At the same time, state legislatures have been entshitifying schools. They give them less and less money, and make unreasonable demands from them. For example, I taught at a school in Indiana which didn't even send a school bus around for kids in predominately minority neighborhoods. They couldn't afford it, because the law requires them to bus kids to private schools.
Vouchers are sold as enabling educational innovation---but what really happens is that funding is drained from public schools, and the kids get sent to private schools, whose primary directive is to PREVENT kids from learning about evolution, and to PREVENT them from acquiring the critical thinking skills necessary to know that vaccines don't cause autism. Entshittification both ways.
rhelz•2mo ago
At the same time, state legislatures have been entshitifying schools. They give them less and less money, and make unreasonable demands from them. For example, I taught at a school in Indiana which didn't even send a school bus around for kids in predominately minority neighborhoods. They couldn't afford it, because the law requires them to bus kids to private schools.
Vouchers are sold as enabling educational innovation---but what really happens is that funding is drained from public schools, and the kids get sent to private schools, whose primary directive is to PREVENT kids from learning about evolution, and to PREVENT them from acquiring the critical thinking skills necessary to know that vaccines don't cause autism. Entshittification both ways.