It’s bad. One of the biggest “districts” in the state is Epic Charter Schools, a virtual school/state embezzlement scam (during COVID, the “learning funds” were buying TV’s and Christmas trees). Teachers there teach all subjects, all grades, so the same person teaching your kid Algebra 2 is teaching kindergarteners how to read.
The school only drops you if you don’t log in for 14 days. So a lot of kids will log in once or twice a week, maybe submit a couple of AI generated essays, and then spend the rest of the day playing video games and watching Netflix. These kids are functionally illiterate. I’m not even talking about the fact that our country decided to stop teaching phonics which has fucked up literacy everywhere, but more high schoolers who cannot read a paragraph or write a complete sentence. I taught a sophomore what Christianity was (not like indoctrination, but more that religion existed as a concept.)
It sucks ass for those of us that are trapped here. It’s a battle that cost me my marriage, my mental health, everything. I’ve had so many friends and people I respect tap out. I had hope that if Kamala won there might be federal intervention - perhaps in education and foster care (especially kids who need psychiatric care/have disabilities, Jesus Christ is it an institution dedicated to sacrificing children to Moloch) - but nothing is probably ever going to change.
For anyone who sees this, the podcast (at least that’s how I consumed it) that andros_rex linked here, Sold a Story from American Public Media, is fascinating, and terribly sad, and I very much recommend it. My wife and I binged the entire thing on a trip. I’ve since recommended it to every teacher I know, and many other people.
Moses fuck (sorry had to), but yeah that’s real fucking bad. As a taxpayer I’m getting really sick of the fact that teachers aren’t being given the resources they need to actually teach and that those resources are being split with charter and sometimes private schools.
Like, I was privately educated, but I want every kid to have the quality of education I got minus the Christian indoctrination. By the time a significant number of kids are entering middle school illiterate we need an independent investigation and report akin to when airplanes crash.
It’s bad. One of the biggest “districts” in the state is Epic Charter Schools, a virtual school/state embezzlement scam (during COVID, the “learning funds” were buying TV’s and Christmas trees). Teachers there teach all subjects, all grades, so the same person teaching your kid Algebra 2 is teaching kindergarteners how to read.
The school only drops you if you don’t log in for 14 days. So a lot of kids will log in once or twice a week, maybe submit a couple of AI generated essays, and then spend the rest of the day playing video games and watching Netflix. These kids are functionally illiterate. I’m not even talking about the fact that our country decided to stop teaching phonics which has fucked up literacy everywhere, but more high schoolers who cannot read a paragraph or write a complete sentence. I taught a sophomore what Christianity was (not like indoctrination, but more that religion existed as a concept.)
Sounds like child abuse. Hope they get the state they’re working so hard to build.
It sucks ass for those of us that are trapped here. It’s a battle that cost me my marriage, my mental health, everything. I’ve had so many friends and people I respect tap out. I had hope that if Kamala won there might be federal intervention - perhaps in education and foster care (especially kids who need psychiatric care/have disabilities, Jesus Christ is it an institution dedicated to sacrificing children to Moloch) - but nothing is probably ever going to change.
For anyone who sees this, the podcast (at least that’s how I consumed it) that andros_rex linked here, Sold a Story from American Public Media, is fascinating, and terribly sad, and I very much recommend it. My wife and I binged the entire thing on a trip. I’ve since recommended it to every teacher I know, and many other people.
Moses fuck (sorry had to), but yeah that’s real fucking bad. As a taxpayer I’m getting really sick of the fact that teachers aren’t being given the resources they need to actually teach and that those resources are being split with charter and sometimes private schools.
Like, I was privately educated, but I want every kid to have the quality of education I got minus the Christian indoctrination. By the time a significant number of kids are entering middle school illiterate we need an independent investigation and report akin to when airplanes crash.