America has a really serious education problem that doesn't seem to be talked about all that much.
Like the literacy rate of america and this kind of shit is well beyond anything we see in the UK, sure we see a certain amount of it but the quantity of it pouring out of the US is unbelievable.
It is absolutely unreal how many average Americans are completely awash in conspiracy theory trash. Or just basic misinformation. I have multiple university educated colleagues who wouldn't be able to find China on a map. It's some intersection of genuine illiteracy, lack of curiosity, and capitalist alienation that has created history's thickest brainworms.
I know more than three people who don't believe satellites are real, but do believe tap water has mind control drugs in it. That number should be zero. This place is unreal.
I know people from harvard that couldn't identify most places on a map lol
the rot in education goes deep
Yeah but like what is happening in schools for it to be this bad? You have schools, pupils presumably do similar hours to here in the UK, why is the outcome so horribly different?
I'm not saying world geography is great in the UK either, but it's incomparable to what is seen coming out of the US, and the sheer quantity of conspiracy brainworms and cult behaviour is similarly incomparable.. It's as different as our homeless rates imo, the UK having 2000 to 5000 or so on the streets at night to America's 500,000+
Schools in the US are glorified daycares and have been for decades. I had classmates who graduated high school without the ability to read a sentence out loud. I worked as a subsitute for a while in an underfunded, crowded school in a poor area too. The students there were receiving absolutely zero education. The teachers would assign reading and then do no instruction. I watched kids smoke weed in class, or take naps. More than several times I saw teachers let students get into fights, idea there is the kids will wear themselves out.
I don't mean to speak ill of these teachers though. I got the impression they were just too exhausted to care anymore. It was sad. The light had burned out of them.
I was also astounded by the size of these classrooms. There were often 50, 60, 70 students in one classroom with one teacher. The school would have 1,000 students and maybe 30 teachers. It's a horrifying ratio.
High school dropouts are a major problem too. In my state about 10% of students don't graduate. That's millions of people who didn't finish their compulsory education, even if it was just sitting around learning nothing.
These are public schools in poor areas though. I taught at a few private and charter schools and they had a much more typical school environment, which is also horrifying in its own way.
Your comment made me curious about what state you were possibly in, since I figured that having only 90% of students graduate highschool would put you in the bottom 5-10. However according to this source I found: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/high-school-graduation-rates-by-state then there are 20 states with less than 90% graduation rates. Also somehow Montana has the highest rate in the country with 94% of their high school students graduating.
Yeah the national average is around a 90% dropout rate. Education is not exactly America's strongest quality.
I wasn't going to say anything since your point is valid and I agree with it in general, but in this instance she's in the UK and asking POTUS (unclear if Biden or Trump) to visit.
Lmao that's wild. I went digging and it looks like she's got such significant issues that the children were taken by social services. This actually takes quite a considerable amount to occur here. No surprises that she's retweeting Farage I suppose.
I assume that this "forced adoption" shit she's on is probably tied to what's going on with her own kids, she has "mummy to the missing" in her bio so my assumption is that she's still not being allowed to be near those kids.
EDIT: Ahhh she has bipolar disorder. Unfortunate and quite explanatory, this kind of thing is actually common among bipolar here. But being bipolar itself is rare. That makes this an instance of Twitter profiting off of a mental health case then.
Yeah. I'm not looking anymore because I feel like she's a victim of this shit. That said I suspect someone promoted her ad to make fun of her, making it Twitter profiting off of bullying a woman in mental distress.
That shit's too man made horrors beyond my comprehension for me,
No, she has a tweet stating it's 50 quid for 5 days and remarking on how it's so expensive with a grimacing emoji. Which makes it all the sadder tbh, I suspect there are much better things she could be saving that money for in the middle of so many crises here in Britain
Thanks for that update. Still sad, but slightly less horrific than my suspicions.
Fuck fuck fuck I looked her up - and just don't.
Clear mental illness and broken families being speculated on by Musk so he can take whatever pittance this sad woman had.
Honesty at first glance I didn’t even think it was a real person because of the incoherence
I was expecting a bot or some sort of grifter, but found one of their victims instead. The amount of piling on she's getting is tragic.
It's important we be able to talk about the reality of the world around us, but these folks have clearly spent days harassing someone who ultimately is wondering where their child went (into protective services) and is having a internet-fueled break from reality. 😞
If she is a victim it is tragic we have the clown in chief amplifying the spectacle.
We talking Musk? Because yeah. I cannot describe how much I fucking hate him right now, this woman has been mad posting for days nonstop.
Fuck I wonder if she paid, or if someone paid to make fun of her. Jesus Fucking Christ.
Has :my-hero: replied to any of it, besides a presumed "interesting" or "correct?"
Not that I saw, I only went back a few days though. That shit really fucked me up, advise staying away from it.
Yes, sorry it's a shame that we have Elon Musk amplifying this trauma and making it the sport of bored social media sickos (admittedly, like myself.)
E) removed insensitive idiom
This thread, but particularly you post, just gave me the weirdest and strongest sense of deja vu i've encountered in some time.
Gonna go drink myself to sleep now.
Mom: We have Henry Ford at Home
Henry Ford at Home: :my-hero:
Qh boy, here we go again!
dumb question
Also, what's up with the little bar graph bottom left of the tweet? Is this something I missed in the last week or so while I was on posting sabbatical?
You can see views on tweets, started like just before christmas.
Except it’s disabled on ads like this one because they got mad at getting ratioed by views/likes/purchases :data-laughing:
Karl Rove tactics once again, considering who owns and rules over Twitter right now. :melon-musk: :maxwell:
wtf is this person talking about? Totally incoherent.
