What is the broad difference between “public” and “private” education ??
In the 2002 context? No Child Left Behind was being implemented, which was essentially a foot in the door for privatizating every aspect of education so long as the students could pass standardized test scores. This implemented the conditions of today where public education funds are funneled to private operations while accepting private grants to guide and govern curriculum.
LOL I went to an ultra conservative private Baptist Christian school. There were barely any choices for classes, basically split between “stupid” kids and “smart” kits. I missed out on a lot of opportunities during my childhood. The main things I was qualified for after graduating were going to Bible college, Liberty University, or retail work.
Not even subtle, just a garbage cash grab by people who want to divert public school funding into private hands.
Subtle propaganda for diverting public school funds to segregated private schools through vouchers.
Thereby further weakening unionized teachers, and the middle class as a whole.
Fuck Linda McMahon and Betsy DeVos
is this a comic for elitist cum socks?
What is socks 🧦 ?
baby don’t hurt me
No, but what does that mean ??
a cum sock is a crusty sock that guys masturbate with and cum inside.
not to be confused with coconuts.
Oh debianastro made an alt account, or an alt instance. That explains how this got past my block filter.
Haha because our school system failed the entire generation, get it, because that’s funny
Is this some 'murica thing I’m too German to get?
Combines the conservative hatred of secular public education with the entitled boomer hatred of the young.
read it more as a commentary on passive learning over hands on and thought provoking methods. although this rhetoric is likely often included in the anti academic opinions that seek to damage rather than improve schools, which you refer to.
I wish the Conservatives all understood that their more progressive values are progressive, and when right wing parties will say they are going to ‘change’ things, they just mean regress and destroy in abject ignorance of any actual thought.
The former interpretation of the comic is definitely important, as learning is actually tied to turning your brain on and interacting with the concept, more than no context single fact retrievals, where most of the question is set up, and your actual interaction with it is minimal.
Although I don’t doubt a lack of teachers, schools, or general funding are to blame for the simpler methods. Not that I haven’t had a couple teachers who didn’t care two cents past the booklets they handed you.
So, your point is valid and important, but there is an important “style” of education issues that is also valid.
American public schools are pretty bad. Most people who can afford to send their kids to private school do- and most people can’t afford private school.
There has been an active, deliberate drive since Reagan (in California, since Governor Reagan) by the right to make public eduation worse, to raise an unskilled underclass with no upward mobility and no capacity for critical thinking. In most places local property taxes fund public schools so rich areas have more school funding than poor areas. This is by design, to resegregate and increase inequality.
“Teaching to the test” the problem this comic directly references, was the result of making them pass metrics or lose already limited funding.
The way this comic calls out public education suggests the artist is one of the heartless fascist Republican boomers who created the problem, smirking to an audience of the same with no self-awareness. “Haha, stupid kid. Shoulda gone to private school. Have you tried just… not being poor, you son of a lazy bum?”
there are plenty of people that could afford private school, but instead choose to move to a place with better public schools.
Americans hate the idea of paying money for someone else. Especially if that person is an “other.”
This means we can’t have anything nice because it might benefit someone that someone else hates.
There is a cruel and crude portion of this population that hates anything that might help the public at large. Public transportation, state run healthcare, the post office.
For many wealthy Americans spending $100 for every $1 of avoided taxes is worth it.
Now this would all be irrational and stupid if that $1 in taxes provided an equivalent service. So they have to break those systems or just plain make shit up.
I was educated in public schools in America, it was fine. I went to state university and obtained two degrees. Contrary to popular belief they taught us plenty. I had many bright and dedicated educators explain the world around me and make me fall in love with scholastic pursuits. Caring and driven public servants paid a pittance but still excited to share their time and talents with kids figuring out the world.
Whether it was an English teacher who decided he cared enough to run the academic decathlon team, or my calculus teacher senior year who made me fall in love with the beauty of mathematics.
The person I am is indelibly linked to the public school system. As a poor kid growing up in a poor neighborhood, education was a way up. And the wealthy in this nation can’t stand that. Success is for their kids going to expensive private school.
Not sure when you graduated but this is definitely not the average experience.
No one is saying it’s the teachers’ fault, it’s not. The system is designed to teach to tests (which doesn’t work for most and doesn’t work in the real world either). It teaches zero critical thinking, that’s the main issue. I was a product of a “great” public school and struggled. Wouldn’t have passed without being able to get tutoring after school.
My kids are now going to classical school and they’re WAY ahead of their peers. My 16 yr old isn’t special mentally but he is at least at the college senior level, if not higher in things like philosophy and mechanics. This is true of their classically taught peers as well. They all excel.
It’s Fox News viewer humor.
i’m surprised the kid isn’t black.
The GOP has systematicly dismantled the united states education system over the last two decades or more, americans are LITERALLY dumber now becaise of it so that they can be ruled over easier.
Perhaps, or too boomer
It took me a second because, confusingly, our “public schools” are what much of the world would simply call private schools. These are the super posh schools like Eton or Harrow.
So is it different at Eton and Harrow ?
In the UK the two main categories for schools are private schools and state schools.
“Public schools” are, unintuitively, a subset of private schools, typically the very old very posh ones.
The term is archaic, but refers to the fact that they weren’t run by the state or by the church - i.e. they were run by the public. Of course, this refers to a board of governors made of the super-wealthy, not the average man on the street.
Eton and Harrow are particularly famed for churning out people who end up as Prime Ministers and other high-ranking officials. It’s not just the money, but the connections you build there as well. They’re also famed for churning out borderline psychopaths who literally think the rest of the world is there to cater to their comfortable lifestyles.
hate to tell you this, but for me private Catholic school was way worse than public school would’ve been.
My high school focused on football and discipline. my friends went to arts and sciences magnet schools, engaged their passions, and found like-minded friends.
Education is a means of control.
I had to take summer school to catch up to public high school math after my K-8 catholic school
