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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 236 points 1 year ago (54 children)

What scares me shitless is the idea that Trump is what the US is and what the US has earned. Who's ready for that conversation?

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago (49 children)

100% this. Im German and I feel so strange that americans are choosing this guy for president. Not to be offensive, but damn.

[–] SoaringDE@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here. I think this is what happens when education is underfundet. I'm happy we're back to G9 but we should definitely pay teachers more to counteract the lack of teachers and ensure every teacher has sufficient time to do their job well.

Otherwise people cannot be taught to think critical, question "why is he saying X?" instead of just weather it is true or not. Often understanding why somebody is saying sometimg at the time they do is much more important after all.

[–] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This idea that we are under funded is not true. Per Capita we spend more than every other country on education than any other OECD country besides Luxembourg.

We are number two world wide for funds to education per capita.

Our funding is just wasted and ineffective. We have a cultural problem with education. Not a funding problem.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes School boards and superintendents are extremely well funded. The fact that teachers have to struggle to scrape by while at the same time funding classroom supplies out of their own money just reeks of mis-allocated misspent funds. There's always money for another Sports program. While science technology engineering and math extracurriculars in many districts don't exist.

It's a perfect mirror of our diseased American culture. Where wealth and wealth alone is Merit. And those who give the least (work) get the most.

[–] Barbacamanitu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That money goes to administrators instead of teachers.

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