> most of the decline in education is due to leftist women and teacher's unions funny, since conservative states where it's illegal for teachers to strike tend to have the worst quality of education... no, there's actually a number of factors at play here. you are right about one thing, and that would be the influence of "smart" technology. the number one smart technology causing problems in the classroom is smart phones. yes, not only are there parents who let their children have unrestricted access to smart phones, but they complain when teachers take them away, even temporarily. "how else are we supposed to contact our children?" you aren't supposed to. they're in school. if there is a family emergency, contact the office like your parents did when you were in school. otherwise, stop sending your children to school with a tiktok machine. also, stop letting your children watch tiktok, youtube, and whatever else before they can even learn to read. speaking of reading, we came up with a really shitty way of teaching it. it's called the whole language approach. instead of learning to sound out words, students instead are taught whole words. meaning as soon as students get past around 3rd grade and start encountering more advanced vocabulary, they have no ability to learn new words because they can't reason about how the word is supposed to sound. they may have heard the word said out loud before, but they won't connect the spelling to the word they've heard. also, they aren't getting practice reading whole books, so they have no reading endurance. these are problems that will not be addressed by replacing the teachers with people whose political ideology you agree with.
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