How America Keeps Its Citizens Uneducated
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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We are in the midst of an ongoing public education crisis. There’s a war on public education and an active push to defund public schools. In this video, I discuss America’s long history of anti-intellectualism and how there’s a push to privatize public schools and defund public libraries to keep Americans uneducated. Public schools are failing and it isn't an accident.
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It's striking how the villains in US movies, including cartoons, are usually the most well spoken and educated chracters in the whole cast. It's easy to see how this reflects and feeds America's anti-intellectualism.
But it does keep British actors reliably employed.
And the popular characters are the jocks (males) and the airheads (female)
I actually had this thought earlier. Most comic book villains are well educated or have up straight PhDs (all of Batman’s villains with exception of a few are legitimately doctors and the ones that aren’t art still considered geniuses)
Look at palpatine he is a great example of this
@@ghostface6701 Superman's day job is in the media, doesn't stop US Americans from villifying journalists any chance they get. I don't think comic books have that much sway in your society.
"It's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin
The expression "American dream" for quite a long time meant the dream for European non-nobles of low extraction and even of criminal background to become aristocrats of the New World, in position to intimidate even European dukes by the richness of their high life, thanks to Southern slave-estate acquisition and operation. The expression wasn't invented in the US proper but by French slave-owners in Louisiana before it was annexed by Jefferson.
Agreed
It is possible to “reach” the American dream, but you must undergo sleep deprivation.
Well said.
There are two ways to achieve it: by breaking the law or by inheriting it. Ideally, inherit it after your parents break the law.
As a teacher I want to stress that they do it exactly as intended. They make our lives as teachers miserable, paying us nothing to leave our students behind and keep them uneducated. I will not give up on them. Parents please encourage your kids to read hard copy books, to reflect on them to increase their critical thinking.
Teachers also make a decent salary on about 1/2-2/3 of the time of other workers. Then, on top of that, it's not exactly a laborious position. Please teachers/moderator correct me if I am wrong...
My daughter teaches and took with her as much of our kids library as I was willing to let go of (nearly all, but hands off the Arthur Ransom and some collectors items). It has helped enormously to have a large library to start with and to let the kids know what the world is about. Then they can approach the library with some security. I get the point of having to bring your own supplies.
@@pattrell5257Teachers typically work two to three hours a day on top of their work day. They “volunteer” for a variety of school projects. Their classroom harbours on average 3 autism spectrum students who may or may not be identified by the system. This is added to large classrooms sleuth few education assistants if any to help out- even on occasion.
Example: go to work and get your job done while having to guide a person with AdHD through every task - on a separate level.
So the class sizes are too large and there are not enough resources and not enough Ed assistants. So you join the union. More unpaid work. Once every few years you get to be the representative to attend a union. Paid convention. That is where you stand up to make amendments to stand up for LGTBQI students and to vote to force the government to limit class sizes and hire more teachers. You go on strike. Your success is in the next government to get elected on your demands.
@@pattrell5257The average starting salary for a teacher is around $44,000 a year. The education and certification required to be a teacher costs on average $80,000.
If I offered you a job that requires but is not limited to the following what would you expect to be paid?
--develop a detailed plan for all tasks/lectures to be completed on a weekly basis, to be submitted to an administrator for prior approval no less than 2 weeks before the execution of the week's planned lectures
--provide training lectures to 30+ individuals in 45 minutes time-blocks 6-7 times per day (5 days per week)
--perform quality control on all completed tasks/assignments each day while providing individualized constructive criticism that can be applied to improve individual performance
--manage communications at regular weekly intervals with the direct supervisor(s) of each individual in your lecture program
--attend at least 200 hours of Continued Professional Education (CPE) per year to be completed outside of regular working hours
--must be available for a minimum of five open office hours weekly
Parents are unschooling their kids now. 😐 And even the ones that aren't, are still just plopping their poor kids in front of an iPad and a cellphone so they don't have to actually be a parent. Like. It's getting really bad out here. Children are going feral.
Sophomore in high school here, this video has opened my eyes. I always knew it was bad, but I definitely noticed it was getting worse once I entered high school. I remember my older family members and friends telling me stories on how they used to read entire books in school and analyze them. I always wondered when that would happen, but it never did. Instead, my school gave us little excerpts from different books and made us analyze those instead. By little, I mean about two or three paragraphs. How are we supposed to fully understand it if we don't have the full context?
Textbooks have been almost completely discarded. The only classes that use those are the college level ones, which are usually electives. I'm trying to read more books--like classics--to increase my own knowledge. It's sad seeing how it's already affecting so many of my classmates. It's fairly common for teachers to teach by the test and not fully teach the subject. Almost all my teachers have said at least once that they're teaching us this so we pass the test, not so we can learn.
Training kids to make judgements based on soundbites. That's how you get someone like Trump in office - he says a few snippets of things people want to hear, but they don't consider the full context of how he has been a con-man and failure his entire career.
i am also graduating an american high school this year and you are very fortunate to have noticed this already. i am deeply bothered by teachers teaching by the tests; it always leaves me disappointed and wanting more. by keeping your desire to learn and finding ways to access reliable information, you will go far.
Knowledge is power. The more you know, the less people can pretend they know what they're talking about and you won't catch on. I'm a voracious reader. I read, comprehend and retain information on everything, even if it doesn't concern me or effect me. As a result, I can listen into conversations with people further along in education on any subject and know which one is talking a' good game' and who really knows what they're talking about. Highly useful if you don't want to be played. And not be so insulted when they call you 'an idiot' because you challenge them.
@jojo58 You make several excellent observations. You wrote two cogent, organized and engaging paragraphs. Despite the poor education to which you have been subjected, you still have the potential to make something great from your mind. My best advice is that you continue in the system, but try to take control of your own education. Choose the most difficult courses that interest you. Follow the curriculum but fight to learn more than the teachers present. Ask questions. Challenge yourself. Become a mental athlete. Fight for your future. You will find people who honor your effort and will do what they can to help you achieve your potential. Best wishes!
My sister is only 3 years older than me, have yet to read a single book she read in highschool
My children spent 6 months in the the American public school system, after attending for 3 and 4 years in a UK public school. When they arrived at school in America, they found the school work so easy, much of which they had learned in the UK a year or two previously. Their teachers thought they were "gifted", but in the UK school they were in the norm. When they returned to the UK, they had fallen so far behind they needed extra tuition to catch up to their counterparts. That is when it was brought home to me that the US eduction system isn't good. My sisters children followed the norm, became manual workers, factory workers, cleaners and waiting tables. They all voted for Trump, not seeing they were being put in the places and praying on their prejudices, i.e. black people, and immigrants. Ask them what is wrong with America and they will give you those two reasons. Even my family who had emigrated to the States in the 1950s stopped being open minded, and became racist and gullible, because where they lived everyone thought the same. It never occurred to me that this was the plan, and this video spells it out in Capital letters.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It is damning. I remember being in grade school and VERY early on thinking - we are raising a big bunch of suckers, to be conformist and obey.
Yeah the UK is not exactly a role model for how to not be racist. Half the banned words on youtube are British slurs against non-whites. My step grandmother came from a long line of Brits and used to tell a story about her grandmother talking to her about slavery... and how great it was. Back in those days you respected your elders way more than anything else so my step grandmother grew up believing that brown people want to be enslaved because it's better for them. True story I once heard this entire speech on Christmas Eve in a heart-to-heart conversation with her.
PLEASE READ IT IS IMPORTANT,
MY SON CAME HOME ONE DAY IN THE 7TH GRADE AND SAID I AM NOT GOING BACK TO SCHOOL PERIOD. "SPANK ME BEAT ME, I WILL NOT GO BACK, YOU CANNOT MAKE ME. AND FUCK YOU" I'M LIKE WTF, OK LETS SIT DOWN AND YOU CALMLY TELL ME WHY. BASICALLY HE SAID, WE CHANGE CLASS ROOMS EVERY 55 MIN, WITH 5 MIN BETWEEN TO GET TO THE NEXT CLASS. IT TAKES THE TEACHER 15 MIN TO GET THE CLASS TO CALM DOWN TO STUDY. WE STUDY FOR 10-15 MIN AND IT ERUPTS WITH TOTAL BS. IT TAKES HER ANOTHER 15 MIN TO CALM THINGS DOWN AND THEN WE HAVE TO GO TO OUR NEXT CLASS. SO OUT OF 55 MIN WE LEARN FOR 15 MINUTES BS I AM NOT GOING BACK. WELL I COULD NOT ARGUE THAT BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE 10-12 YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS IN JR HIGH. SO I SAID LET ME THINK ABOUT IT. 24 HOURS LATTER IT WAS HOME SCHOOL PERIOD. I WOULD GIVE HIM HIS ASSIGNMENT FOR THE WEEK AND TELL HIM IT WAS DUE ON FRI. THAT'S IT. WHEN EVER HE WANTED TO WORK ON IT WAS UP TO HIM, WE JOINED A HOME SCHOOL NETWORK THAT WAS CERTIFIED. HE HAD TO PASS THERE REQUIREMENTS TO GET A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA, HE PASSED WITH HONORS. I AM NOT A BIG FAN OF HOME SCHOOLING AND NEVER WILL BE, AS MUCH OF HOME SCHOOLING IS BASED ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM B.S. AND IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND HOME SCHOOLING TEXT BOOKS THAT ARE NOT HEAVILY BASED IN RELIGION.
@@KIDROCK-oq7um Life tip: People won't read things written in all caps. Now you know.
@@architennis ONLY DUMB ASS8S
I'll never say this enough. The system isn't broken, it's working exactly as intended.
Whatever problems you think are showing, it's by design.
But by WHOSE design? Public education is controlled by the government. It's no coincidence that things even as basic as civics are falling by the wayside. They don't want students who will think critically and question the system.
Project 2025 wants to end Department of Education meaga Republicans wants to keep America dumb as hell so the top one percent can exploit people financial resources forever.
That is precisely the fact of the matter! America was designed to deceive and it has done so quite well. So, well, in fact, that its own population is the biggest victim of the American design.
If it was not for the millions of people who came from Africa, Asia and Latin America, America would be exactly what you see when you travel through the major cities, rottenness.
@@tomservo75 The "system" is indeed not "broken", like the OP stated.
The "system" functions *exactly as intended,* and exactly as desired by the uber-1%ters in positions of wealth and power.
The "system" *intentionally* sets up states against states, countries against countries, entitities against entities, people against people, neighbors against neighbors, class against class, faction against faction...
*The "system" is intentional, perpetual, and is divide-and-rule.*
It does exactly what it has intended to do for centuries: set up the default ingroups against the default outgroups, then then the elites/establishment *rule* over the *division.*
Where I go to school is different than how you all describe your American schools. Then again I'm living in a small rural community that has a progressive school board.
I'm a Kenyan who grew up watching a lot of America media, cartoons and movies, and as a child I remember finding it strange that Americans found being smart bad or unattractive. Those characters are always the nerds, dorks, unattractive, unpopular. In my school, it was always the children with the best grades that were popular and looked up to.
Looking back on it, it really does show that America has something against actual smart people, and it's not working out for them right now.
Stop lumping all Americans into one ridiculous stereotype. There are MANY of us who take pride in being smart. Just stop.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz Sorry you have your feelings hurt but too many Americans take pride in being ignorant. Only 25% of Americans can name the 3 branches of government and probably fewer know what continent Kenya can be found. Despite people you associate with being above average the US has a problem of anti-intellectualism including Trumpism. Schools are limited in teaching biology, geology, and cosmology because parents complain about it not agreeing with Genesis. Some wealthy people are trying to defund education because they don't like paying taxes.
Smart people are harder to manipulate and control or exploit. This makes people upset
@@Anonymous-wb3nzyou’re not too smart if you actually got worked up over that comment. if you had half the sense you claim, you’d understand they, or really anyone (unless you’re a racist white guy) obviously never means “EVERYONE”. relax.
@@Anonymous-wb3nz well he just pointing out is that the US is marketing it to people elsewhere, there's always been this running joke for years that Americans are dumb especially with shows such as 'Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader', which is funny because adults should know more than them and yet most of the adults featured on the show can't even pass the questions which are mainly simple math and common knowledge
Same here in Australia. Dumbing down of society. Unquestioning gullibility on the rise. It’s by design folks, but many can’t see it.😡😡😡
It’s happening in the U.K. with dumbing down with the stupid American tv programmes which have taken over British tv.
my step-sister spent a year as an exchange student in Australia; she wound up having to catch up when she got back to the U.S.; that was in the 90's which shows just how long it's been going on
I agree, an adequate education in Australia is dependant on if you have enough money to send your kids to a private school. Although it’s screwed up, I don’t think it’s as sinister as the situation in America.
Literally Australian education dependant on importing it from South, South east and East Asia@@chipsz3681
As currently on view in the USA, the FASCIST SCAM started over a hundred years ago when Coors (as in Coors beer) put together a fascist right wing group and agenda to counter the socialist progressive policies that were beginning to be implemented in America.
The protestant groups, such as the evangelicals, baptists, assemblies, etc., were chosen for this project PRECISELY and INTENTIONALLY, because they were NAIVE, incredibly IGNORANT, and very EASILY and READILY MANIPULATED.
Money, capitalism, power, fascism, plutocracy, and oligarchy were and are the singular goals, the absolute objectives; though most of the deluded members of these cults are not aware of these things and would die defending this con.
These ultra right wing barrons knew it would take some time for this cold-blooded, purposeful contrivance to work its way to the forefront, but it started to bear fruit in the 50's, showed up in force in the Reagan 80's, the Gingrich Congress, Dubya's era, Delay's Congress, the Claremont Institute, the Heritage Foundation (and many others like it) and came to full, grim, nightmarish fruition with the REPUBLICANeviks, TRUMPeviks, MAGAviks, Q'ANONeviks, etc.; with the RIGHT WING, conservative, fascist MEDIA at their side AMPLIFYING the SOPHISTRY/MESSAGING 24/7. --- --- ---
Point: FOX media is NOT a NEWS outlet. It deals strictly in dissemination of ULTRA-RIGHT wing fascist, republicanevik, trumpevik, magavik, q'anonevik, fundamentalist, racist, etc., LIES and PROPAGANDA.
(Think Moscow's PRAVDA.)
FOX actively promoted
seditious lies regarding
the last american
presidential election,
was caught and sued,
settled out of court and
paid close to a billion
dollars in settlement
fees to Dominion.
Smartmatic is in
process of suing.
Little, if anything, has
changed.
(Although there is now
one very capable,
democracy and truth
supporting journalist
who, when she is on,
very intelligently
refutes all the lies.)
FOX wholeheartedly
(almost singlehandedly)
but alongside such media
as OANN, NEWSMAX,...
and all the ultra-right
political/religious RADIO PROGRAMMING,
[which by the way is
particularly brutal in
the vile, vicious lies it
spreads, being fiercely
anti-education,
anti-science, very pro
muscovite-russian state
fascism, pro-Orban,
pro-Putin, misogynistic,
racist, etc.],
CONTRIBUTED TO the incalculable degree of IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY WITHIN the american populace;
CONTRIBUTED TO the absolute harsh oligarchical plutocratic fascist CORPORATE CONTROL of the LIVES of american citizens for the absolute WORSE and spiraling downward;
CONTRIBUTED TO the horrendously NEGATIVE STATE of affairs regarding the condition of economic PROSPERITY,
WELLBEING, and physical/medical/mental HEALTH of american citizenry; and
CONTRIBUTED TO the DELIBERATE CRIMINAL FASCIST DISARRAY within the USA government.
This is NOT an exaggeration.
--- --- --- --- ---
It is, in fact, a STATISTIC
that if you watch FOX
(or watch and listen to other such right-wing outlets),
you are (kindly phrased) SIMPLE-MINDED.
And the more you watch/listen to/read the rightwing media, the more DENSE and BRAINLESS you become. --- --- ---
It would take hundreds of years of deprogramming - and that with limited success - to start to solve this problem, if at all possible, because it was done under the auspices of religion. The naive left fell prey to right wing pr and did absolutely nothing to counteract this nefarious scheme. It was dismissed as under the sponsorship and guidance
of 'religion.'
They were afraid to touch that system model.
Instead, they actually helped cater to it, particularly during the Reagan and Dubya era.
- - - - - - -
The so-called 'christian right' is NOT Christian.
They are old testament fundamentalist reconstructionists and dominionists. There are varieties within those; most of which are beyond hypocritical, predatory, fraudulent, grifting, larcenous, and CRIMINAL.
They do NOT follow the teachings of Christ as laid out in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the New Testament of the Bible.
The word 'christian' as applied to these people
is a
DELIBERATE MISNOMER.
-- -- -- -- -- --
Additionally, the Muscovite-Russian State has been plying its PROPAGANDA for hundreds of years.
But it came into full play in the USA with the Reagan years in all possible categories, such as:
economy, commerce, business, politics, finance, entertainment, sports, religion, education, etc.
Putin intensified the predatory ruthless scheme to a highly targeted level by not only using HUMAN ASSETS but ALL MEDIA RESOURCES available, particularly television and internet; concentrating on the venal, CORRUPT, uninformed, IGNORANT, and GULLIBLE political/religious right.
This Infiltration/Manipulation is CURRENT and ONGOING.
To wit: Tucker Carlson, Mike Johnson, Jim Jordan, Comer, Tuberville, trumpeviks, magaviks, q'anoneviks, fundamentalists, right wing media,...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Crudely but accurately stated, Trump and the religious/political right are Putin's 'butt boys' -
(though Trump is particularly 'special' in that regard).
That goes for the ENTIRE POLITICAL and RELIGIOUS RIGHT THROUGHOUT the PLANET.
Think Europe, India, Africa, etc. The MUSCOVITE BRAINWASHING has been PROFUSE.
-- -- -- -- -- -- --
The right planned hundreds of years into the future.
The left was lazy, and in many instances, arrogant and unsophisticated about reality.
The consequences and results of lack of counter-action are self-evident and on full display. -- The only long-term answer:
EDUCATION, education, education. With real SOLUTIONS and absolute, actual RESULTS.
Not following through would be terminal.
Watching videos on this app of people from other countries calling us “stupid “, “uneducated “, used to offend me until this election proved that they were speaking straight facts🙄
No same I had to come the realization that we are very stupid
I used to take it personally, but now I don't.
Yes.and then you end up with a president that thinks a test for dementia is a measure of intelligence.A test that most eight year olds in New Zealand could pass
I'm in UK and it's getting to be the same here. I have no doubt the far right party will get in next election.
Once in a while I watch RT (Russia Today). One of their things is going out on to American streets, asking passers-by to point out on a map the countries where the US has just invaded, and most people can't do it.
The education system in the USA did well for me, it taught me enough to get out of the country. Now I live in Europe where freedom is a real thing instead of an illusion.
Freedom is an abstract concept. Unlike your ass. Or a hole in the ground.
teach me your ways lol
My pronouns aren't USA
Same here -- I took one look at Reagan and I was gone by age 23. America was on its downhill spiral from the minute he took office but with Trump it's fallen into the abyss.
@@MAKOBITE Neoliberal policies began under Carter, who began deregulating and blamed Americans for suffering during the gas crisis, and only continued under Reagan.
Prior to that, we'd had Keynesians running things so government was responsible to solve problems, though detractors point out the heavy role of centralized planning. That kind of centralized planning is dubbed "communism" today even though it was how all capitalist countries were run decades ago.
Trump, like FDR is an oligarch disliked by other oligarchs. He's not terribly warlike, preferring to "make deals." He's obnoxious but those things make me hopeful.
The only time someone would fear an intelligent mass is someone abusing power. I had an argument with someone who claimed that having everyone be super intelligent would only create a lot of high risk conflict because they’d be equipped to make more powerful counterattacks. I think it’s the complete opposite.
@dinyhotmail I've seen this comment more than once. Do you expect us to scroll through 307 comments to find your name? Most people just copy and paste their comments where they want them to be seen. Or this is a scam.
I think the major issue is that just because people are smarter, it wouldn't automatically guarantee peace or cooperation. Sometimes there aren't perfectly good or bad options for what to do, just several Grey ones which will do some good, but also a lot of bad & you have to decide what you think is the best compromise.
Honestly, the problem is that while everyone bickers endlessly about the new problem, real, grossly exaggerated or completely imagined, the people who are making bank are the opportunists. They are most likely to fall into excessive hedonism, addiction, corner cutting or using people/ situations for personal gain at the expense of others & when enough of them amass enough money & power over the course of decades, they begin making the decisions. They control what is & isn't viewed as important & what is or isn't legal. They create the scapegoats for everyone to chase instead of them. All the while when a new societal problem is noticed, they cash in to deliberately exaggerate the hell out of the until it becomes a sincere, real problem that infects a society for generations to come.
Look, let’s be real? Intelligence isn’t the end all be all….
Neither is access to education.
I mean , let’s be real here? Most of us went to college and still amounted to fuck all but managed to get a median debt of 54k.
Then there is the truth of the matter : those of us who climb high without a trust fund? Typically are not the smartest but the most driven.
It all comes down to how far separated you are from the path of least resistance.
Well-educated people are more competent at assessing risks and finding imaginative solutions to inevitable difficulties. They are less likely to fall for the siren song of the demagogue who makes contradictory promises that can never work.
That argument really reveals how THAT PERSON views advantages in society. Like an animal.
I grew up in rural Oklahoma in the 70’s. My favorite class was physics. It lasted one semester before the teacher left to work for an oil company and the basketball coach took over the class…he wasn’t even a good basketball coach! I’ve resented that my entire life. Ironically, the identical thing happened to my son 30 years later. I could never understand how or why this could have happened…..twice! Your video is the first time this has ever made any sense to me. Thank you so much, your work is very valuable.
I’m from Oklahoma too! And one of my teachers had to leave cause she got deployed! She was in the national guard, on top of that she worked at 7-11 to make ends meet. Oklahoma is awful with teacher pay.
My grandma was watching Fox News one day and they were going on about how you don’t need a college degree and how colleges indoctrinate people with liberal ideals and education sucks and so on. Mind you, ALL of the anchors on the show attended college lmao. The grift is so real.
Grade school and universities both have problems but they are different problems. If grade school actually served its purpose, then not going to college wouldn’t be that uncommon but instead the public school system is a diploma pipeline. Which leads to plenty of people getting a degree that they end up not using. It’s not anti intellectualism to point out that a % of the population just doesn’t have the brainpower for college to be worth the current cost. Not everyone is born with the ability to be the next Neitzsche. We need to find a balance as a country because the people that spent years saying everyone should go to college were just as unproductive then as the people now trying to label all college education as useless.
@ethanhorak8292 Using Neitzsche is a weird choice but alright 😭
@@asdfghjklasdfghjkl321 It was just the first name that popped in my head lol, but my point still stands. Most people are honestly just kinda dumb and a very short specialized training for a job would make more sense than years on a campus.
I would say thats pretty true about US colleges, and the fact that they charge you so much for your indoctrination is atrocious.
In other countries its free or almost free and the standard is so much higher.
And yeah those news anchors may have gone to college, but i do thjnk times have changed now. Id never send my kids down that road in an american system.
College is not needed for many trades....getting a degree that isn't relevant to an in-demand career is a waste of time and money.
The saddest part is a lot of them are actually proud of their ignorance. It's often mindboggling to witness.
especially ignorance in STEM disciplines!
Especially those magabillies.
@@douglasbell3344very true
55 per cent of US adults read below the sixth-grade level. When they see one of their own in a prominent position, their idea of a smart man, their idea of a rich man, it gives them hope.
See "Why states have banned a once popular way to teach children to read."
"KNOWLEDGE IS POWER." This should be followed by a codicil; " IGNORANCE IS SUBSERVIENCE".
IGNORANCE IS INFERIORITY
@@korigang meh, inferiority isnt bliss
Americans are so dumb that they don't know who's on Mount Rushmore, or even which country it's located in!
@@Seamus3051 except when you’re the rich guy who owns everything.
If you’re the dork, who has nothing going for him, and you don’t come from rich background, then nobody cares what you have to say.
The very moment you open your mouth people start falling asleep, until somebody gets tired of hearing you talk about other nonsense that doesn’t compute to the majority of people and just dump his drink from the concession stand on your head.
Knowledge is Worldly Power and Not Spiritual Power.
Girl, you need protection! You’re a national treasure. As a teacher in a public, low income school, YOU ARE SPOT ON!! I’m sitting here listening to you, and I am so relieved someone else sees this! THANK YOU!!
She is not a teacher no more. She is a content creator. She works for GOD. Who can she fear? She fears GOD only. 😂😂😂
I quit my teaching career. All the time I felt like it was ME against the world…. But with this crazy trump cult going on currently I might even leave the country TOOOOOOOO.
@@borngreat-4-life930 “She is not a teacher no more.” Well, with the way you typed it with the double negatives, you actually said, “She is a teacher.” The irony in the idiocy of your statement lnaaaaooooo.
@borngreat-4-li That little post proved her point, "not a teacher NO more" it's ANY more.
Do the videi on being non suicidal jyst in case yoy're hitting a nerve.
It’s crazy cuz I remember growing up and teachers asking the students to donate tissues or pencils to the classroom and I even had teachers say how they had to buy the school supplies for the students on their own so sad and unfair
I worked in public education for 15 yrs in a middle school. Maybe 20% brought in requested supplies. Teachers supplied the rest. At the end of the school year, during locker clean out several large trash can are placed the hallways. Another teacher and I walked around taking supplies from the trash cans. We ended up pushing a 3 shelf cart around and filled it up. Other teachers watched and the next year they started a recycling bin program. The amount thrown out was just about enough to save teachers from buying supplies in the years after that.
But English teachers still supply the shelves full of fiction and non fiction books for the students to read in the classrooms. Many movies about subjects are bought by teachers. Enrichment sets that cost hundreds to thousands of dollars. Teacher adopted 10 families in the school community for Christmas (never got one thank you in 15 yrs). Teachers buy clothes and coats for students. Many buy student’s lunches.
Parents generally bought their children's school supplies such as pencils, paper and books.
@@hydrolito I worked in a have and have not district. About 50/50. Many high end neighborhoods $800k-$10 million + and then about 3 large trailer parks. However, the trailer parks produced more children per family. So school supplies were supplemented. Some of the well off children kept the supplies parents sent like tissues in their lockers, contributing to brand new boxes being trashed. The commercial trash bins after the recycling program started were 50% garbage and 50% unused or lightly used school supplies.
@@hydrolitonot anymore, unfortunately, in poor areas. Although we were poor growing up, our parents PRIORITIZED education and made sure we had the supplies we needed. I’ve been in education for 16 years, and students all have smartphones, $200 shoes, $150 weaves, and no school supplies. Thank God for Title I funds and community partners who donate supplies.
@@Freaysclaw56 Question: if I donate fiction books to English teachers, are they allowed to take them?
Presuming they have nothing "adult" in them?
Hearing how lacking the us school system is as someone who lives in sweden is actually crazy to me. We have proper sex ed, we learn about economics (including how to manage your own economy, how companies try to take advantage of you, how to not fall into debt etc), we learn about multiple prominent religions, their beliefs and history (including the bad history christianity has), we learn world economics and how they work, we learn about multiple different school systems, different governing systems (including both ours and the american one), we learn about most important world events (even those that dont really involved sweden), their cause and effect etc, and ive probably left out some stuff too as these are just things that come to mind. Its all for free as it is law for all kids to be in school for at least 10 years (elementary school, kindergarten-9th grade) and heavily encouraged to choose to do 3 more (gymnasium, after gymnasium theres also university available if you want to). Needless to say homeschooling is illegal. In gymnasium you even get about 120$/month during 10 months of the year for just going to school and it encourages ppl to attend since its pulled if you're absent for no reason for 4 days. If you live far away you get a free bus card to cover travel.
In the old US system. we were taught how to balance a check book, apply for a job, and even fill out tax returns. Life skills are not on the standardized tests so teachers are not allowed to teach them. Pity the ignorant US population.
Why y’all not studying the ACTUAL bad history of islam ? 🎤
Y’all are already invaded over there btw.
@@malindawilczynski2774 Certain schools (like mine) do have mandatory personal finance classes that teach skills like this, but most don’t. It really should be a standard thing in every school.
Ohhhh I always thought Sweden was a nice place to study in, I'm currently living in Czech republic and the system is so weird, high school is hell for international students here.
@@weare9770you’re the problem😂, good job
Ashley! What a superior video, I just subscribed. I’m a retired elementary school teacher, and there’s one issue about American education that you haven’t covered yet… Discipline! You touched on it with charter schools who cannot only kick out special needs students but also behavior problems. And those kids end up in the regular public schools. Finland solved this problem and has a stellar reputation for education in the world, and that is that private schools are illegal in Finland. Therefore, even the wealthiest people are fully invested in the success of their public schools!
As A Teacher myself, this is a very needed discussion on education in America.
So why don't we have a K-12 Unschooling Recommended Reading List?
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase
When Africa Awakes by Hubert Harrison
Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds
Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics by Stan Gibilisco
How about mandatory accounting?
See:
Addictive Accounting; a smartphone app
I was in a classroom where the teacher did not know a meter from a kilometer.
My understanding is that this discussion has been ongoing since the turn of the century - the biggest issue being that education is decentralized in America.
The school administration can always be counted on to stop good teachers.
@@TheAirlock Interesting point, I'll bet state boards have different qualifications for teachers. A kid educated in NJ is not the same as one in Texas, but we hate comparisons, and do nothing to level the opportunities. It's up to the parents to make up for the gap. Sadly too many kids just don't get it like that. It's heartbreaking.
Why capitalize "A" and "T"?
I think that the first hurdle would be to change the anti-intellectualism culture. I’m an immigrant to the US, and when I first came here as a kid, I had a huge culture shock. I’ve always been a “nerdy” kid, but in my country, the other kids didn’t pick on me because I did my homework: everybody did their homework. But here, in the US, I’d get bullied for doing homework, so of course I stopped doing my homework. Thankfully, I transferred to a magnet program with nerdy kids like me. But the problem remains that for kids who stay in regular classes, it’s a race to the bottom partly because of peer pressure.
See Carl Sagan's "celebration of ignorance" essay from around 1995 (I think) which explains exactly that.
It's like americans never evolved beyond the caveman stage!
@@ashram12 sorry, but being a good little boy in this country doesn’t get you anywhere in life. You just get stepped on, and become somebody else’s tool.
“My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
No doubt you probably ended up with a better paying job than those who bullied you who in reality are less intelligent.
@@CharlesRaines4946 No. It’s just that here in the magical land of international capitalism, it’s all about the money. From the 1980’s, all the way to now, nobody cared about the nerds until they started working for Google and started getting jobs in tech.
It’s not that people don’t like smart people, they like people who are smart in the way that actually matter.
If it doesn’t make money or isn’t relevant to other people’s immediate lives, then nobody cares. Experiences taught me that there’s a certain “knowing your audience” that comes with talking about certain subjects.
Most people do not care about your lecture on nuclear physics. for most people if it doesn’t have anything to do with guns, fast food, fast cars, loose women, and Kelsey‘s party on Friday night, They are most likely to interrupt you mid sentence and ask, “excuse me, but what is any of this bullshit have to do with me?”
In America, the smart person is unfortunately treated like the answer to the question that nobody asked about and nobody cares about.
If nobody bothered to ask the question and nobody cares about the subject matter, then maybe you should…
1. Keep your mouth shut.
2. Go talk about it to people who care.
3. Frequent places where people will be more inclined. Here you have to say.
"Nerds" are bullied was a first clue. In my country you get bullied if you're not a nerd or competent enough to follow the class and the curriculum, and I am talking about elementary school too.
However, from what I hear from my friends and their relatives each district and the different parts of the US, the grading level and what they are taught are so different-it's like a sci-fi/Twilight Zone kind of weird. The grade of subjects what they teach in one state is vastly different in the same grade of its neighboring state.
While some teachers have a standard they follow, like a machine, however there other teachers who actually put in an effort.
Endless money for sports and little or nothing for science.
For boys at least, the poorly performing students in the US get bullied for that also, if they are not good athletes. And the smart ones who are good athletes don't get bullied.
I’ve went to two different schools in the same state and in the same district and one school was a grade behind in course material from the other. Depending on what area you go to school in can vastly differ in the quality of education for public schools.
Sounds like an Asian school if someone is bullied for,not being a nerd
And also the fact they give “sports scholarship” for meatheads to get a free ticket to uni
I am not american, but I did an exchange program in the US for a year in high-school. It was always crazy to me how easy the stuff was. I was always a good but average student in my country. While I excelled in the US and had to do nothing. I had better vocabulary in English, my second language, than most of my classmates that were a year older. Math class was basically typing in a calculator, barely any problem solving, and I was taking senior algebra. Chemestry was another joke, just mixing liquids and knowing the basics. I fell behind in my studies a lot that year. Thankfully, I caught up and went to college. I'm finishing my masters this year. 😅 You guys should really open your eyes.
Very interesting. It can also explain why schools insist on starting super early so kids have to get up at 5- 6 am, and be constantly sleep-deprived and underperforming.
Even when the research shows that the teenage body shifts its sleep schedule regardless of whatever discipline the teen has. But instead of listening, we have idiots who would rather ignore those facts in the name of not having “lazy youth” even though the very sleep-deprivation from going against a biological function is what’s making them “lazy.”
It is amazing how the Asian countries youth surive. They spend most of their waking hours studying. @@Window4503
That part is just getting people used to the fact that they may have to have a job where they wake up at inopportune hours to do mind numbing crap that barely benefits them at all.
And then they don’t want to even feed them lunch, either, so the kids are also hungry. It’s much more difficult to learn anything on an empty stomach. And the Education Department whines that they don’t have enough money to feed the kids. That is a huge lie - by design.
@@kgs2280The saddest thing is, when they started the concept of school lunch programs, back around the end of the 1800s, the concept of a free lunch program was built in, from day one & the economic situation of the country was pretty similar to how it is currently- lots of people making a crap ton of money, but the average life sucks & not a whole lot of income or jobs going around for a few decades.
The US education system very much is a joke. However, I grew up in a home that encouraged a love of books, reading, and our parents encouraged curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking. And our parents never discouraged us from being friends with people who were different from us.
I am a Christian, and largely, people in my circles voted for Trump and I feel like I am in the minority, having voted for Kamala. And I feel like most of the people around me have no earthly idea other than Fox News how to research or gather information.
People don't realize how much better other countries have it, and how much better they are actually doing in so many ways. The American bubble is keeping people from seeing truth, reason, and often having compassion for fellow man. And people here aren't able to figure out how to learn those things and learn from other people to improve our own lives here. And it is definitely to our detriment.
Careful now, you sound very un American right there lol (*sarcasm).
I always found it odd that people trying to better than nation by pointing out things that need improvement is considered unpatriotic.
I don’t want to offend you but religion does the same thing. Look at the Taliban, the only book girls are permitted to read in the Koran. Christians do similar just less extreme things. Religion was a way to control the people it still tries to.
American egoism
There are also countries who have it worse, especially with how their government cannot be criticized, or polices what media you can and cannot watch. American schools have their propaganda too, but you can be home schooled, or as an adult, research a college that won't bs you. Escalating costs and child support exploitation due trap some people too.
You are also a part of the American bubble. Europe isn’t this “paradise” you think it is, they still have problems too. Capitalism is still capitalism. Kamala’s policies are basically the same as George Bush.
I remember thinking how weird it was for Tina Fey’s character in Mean Girls to have a part time job at a restaurant where the uniform was humiliating. She was the MATH teacher (arguably the smartest of teachers) and she also ran a competitive after school math club. The one student from the outside world came in with great potential, to think uniquely, and sacrificed it to assimilate into American culture; Lindsay Lohan’s character literally dumbs herself down and just becomes more animalistic towards her peers just to be on top. There’s levels to this people.
Yeah I noticed that, even today, you kind of have to dumb yourself down just to rub elbows with people because the moment you know too much no one wants to hang out with you because you’re some killjoy in their eyes.
She did end up back with the nerds!!! A calculated happy ending.
Thank you for this well-researched, well presented report.
It's young people like you who can 'save' the US.
I've heard others address these topics. However, most gloss over a lot of the details that, given the poor education and lack of ability to evaluate the validity of content that viewers may have, it isn't always clear. You broke this down beautifully without talking down to viewers.
*In America, 82 Nobel Prize Winners (in physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine} can endorse in a letter a particular candidate, who would go on to lose to a candidate who declared, "I love the poorly educated."*
The same scientists who also strongly endorse gender ideology, the most unscientific propaganda of all time? The same scientists who engage in low-effort name-calling and scream and cry when challenged to a reasoned debate? Oh well, Never mind me, I'm just another "racist" by their reckoning.
Yep. We truly do live in a society of morons.
Don't forget how he blatantly said that he had concepts of a plan to replace the ACA.
He literally admitted he'd let 50 million Americans lose their health insurance, go into debt, or die.
These morons still voted for him......
Yup, exactly right.....
What a screwed up system!!!
I am a 72-year-old man married with four grown-up kids living in the clouds because I came from an uneducated environment.
At 60, I woke up in a world without intellectually prepared.
Today, I spend hours listening to knowledgeable people to learn what I should know at my age. Doing that, I google “what is happening to the American education system,” and Google brought me to you.
I am impressed by you; you are so young and have such an intelligent look at the world.
Thank you for the information. I wish you success in anything you put your mind to.
Self education is so undervalued. If you don’t learn at school, you’ve got the rest of your life to educate yourself. There’s never been a time when information was as accessible as it is today. I’m a a 72 yo, retired teacher, who strives to learn at least one new thing/day.
In my opinion intelligent people watch MSNBC.
While what you're doing is admirable, I'd say that trying to fill in knowledge gaps using Google searches is not exactly helping things.
@@PonyjonLmao loved the joke!
Good for you! Keep learning as much as you can. It's never too late and you can keep learning and growing for your entire life 😊
I'm surprised that most Americans read at a 7-8th grade level. I thought they didn't read at all.
It probably seems like they don't read at all because their low reading level makes it difficult for them to read and comprehend most sources targeted at adults. So, they just choose not to read because it would take too much work to actually get anything out of it.
It’s weird. I scored a 31 on the reading portion of the ACT, and have read at a college level since middle school.
IKR!
Trump followers.
@c.p.8040 It starts from a young age because their parents couldn't read to them so they never found the urge to open a book.
I was a teacher for 8 years in charter schools and can verify that phones, screens, sugar, and pop culture are the main problems. Kids don’t value learning or discovery, they are used to instant gratification which such technology provides. I also think the schools and curriculums adapt to the demands of the students and their lazy parents. I have a 6 year old son and we strictly ensured he could read well and do math at home. We also restrict sugar in his diet. He is ahead of every kid in his class and says he is bored at times. I make him read and do more advanced math at home to supplement what isn’t being done in school. Social media has made adults very dumb and gullible. Hopefully a reactionary movement will emerge from this nonsense.
Don't blame the kids, blame a society that does not value knowledge and education.
As a retired educator, I have been saying this for much of my career. The corporate culture in the US doesn’t want an educated work force because such a workforce would deserve a higher compensation than an uneducated one. And business owners see labor as a necessary expense to be reduced by whatever means possible.
Well in Rocketfeller's words: "I need workers, not thinkers."
Indeed. The point about cost of labour is something lost today from the old labour struggles of the past. It's why corporations are running headlong into AI automation. They position themselves two contradictory positions: as necessary 'job creators' whilst at the same time working to reduce employment as much as possible. Since governments started to pretend they need to run the public purpose as a business (around the late '70s when monetarist economics took hold) it has poisoned the public purpose.
The intellectual/smart guy:
The answer to the question nobody asked and nobody cares about
Corporations are the devil the government sleeps with
So true! The right wingers I know completely lost their sh** over student debt loan repayment. It was obvious that the REAL agenda was not educating people. The sentiment was loud and clear: "We can't make it TOO easy to go to college. Where will we get all of our worker bees?
The concept of ivory tower intellectuals is actually quite true in my experience, but it is also by design. I went to a school district with lots of nouveau riche and old money alike. Many people from that community never so much as associate with those outside of Ivy League-Oxbridge circles. I ended up joining the military out of high school because I was an “oddball” who needed a way to pay for my own tuition, healthcare, etc. Catching up with some of my old friends who went straight through the elite school to corporate/family fund pipeline, I’m astonished now as an adult that some of them have no idea how everyday people live. One friend of mine who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard genuinely couldn’t wrap her head around the fact that college can be unaffordable to some. She vehemently denied that many people choose not to attend top schools simply because they don’t have the funds. She didn’t understand the concept of occupational hazards, and would argue that jumping out of planes carried no higher risk than white collar workers commuting to the office, or that combat PTSD was no more grave than MIT students’ exam stress. People like her are so far removed from the realities of those who make up the backbone of this nation, yet they’re the ones at the top making the big decisions (and raking in millions while they’re at it). And for them, this way is for the best. Because once you actually start understanding and empathizing with the so-called unwashed masses, the ivory tower shatters and all the wealth and privilege you built on their backs on starts looking less grand.
Thank you. This was very well written.
decadence is when you live disconnected from reality. in the case of nations is when its elites start living in their small worlds (like nobles in versailles) losing grip to what "leading" means. its all go to rot
@@theberlintoker Agreed
Well said. 👍
Right on.
Like Jaen Jacues Rousseau once wrote: education is meant to make kids the educated CITIZENS, not doctors, lawyers, policemen, etc.!
That was because they only wanted either rich or poor people.
@@Diana-yn2ho I can agree with you.
I see professions as an extension to basic civil responsibility, though.
In view of the complexity of our lives, even people with unglamorous jobs as truck driving could use a solid college education for making the most out of life. I could think of plenty of music to which to listen on the long, dull road. Or books on disc.
Much of our political distress and cultural depravity comes from the denigration of learning. Just imagine Donald Judas Iscariot Trump becoming President in a country that puts formal education in high regard.
@@paulbrower Precisely.
@@Diana-yn2ho They don't. They are now largely dedicated to churning out people to work in dead-end farm labor (in rural areas) and 'hospitality' jobs now that the factory jobs have heavily disappeared). For some people such is appropriate.
I'm very happy to see people finally opening their eyes up to the U.S. "education" system and other injustices! Keep the progress moving, guys! I'll keep it going myself!
- “I love the poorly educated”.
Proceeds to propose dismantling the Dept of Education.
Well that would upset the oligarchs. It's a system put in place for their benefit.
Orange man pisses off the oligarchs even more than he pisses off the liberals - likely the top two reasons the people voted him back in.
It's also worth noting that the last President to turn his back on his class like this was FDR. Things under FDR only turned out like they did due to the threats of unionists, socialists, and communists. FDR (in his own words) "saved capitalism" and he also avoided what was starting to look like a 2nd Civil War.
More to love -- sounds like they're being straightforward
he siad what he said, but no one believed him.
You do now that education started to plummet after the creation of the department of education right?
@@SeanWaters1120 "Know?" That's an underhanded way to try to prove your point.
They keep changing the curriculum as well, at least where I live. It’s especially a problem with times tables. Half of my class was told they’d learn times tables in 4th grade. Then when they got to 4th grade they were told they should’ve learned it in 3rd. So now, as JUNIORS IN HIGH SCHOOL, we’re doing those timed multiplication tests.
Very very true!!
Damn. We're all cooked.
Btw I like the Hello Kitty pfp
I have a math degree and I hated those arithmetic tests. Let 'em use calculators. Or phones.
Yea I remember being surprised when my past classmates didn’t know their time tables by memory, how to write cursive, or typing quickly without having to look at their keyboard (I was lucky to learn them in elementary)
@@rochipapaya4839 What things do kinds now know that you didn't at their age? This whole "kids don't learn anymore" argument is disingenuous.
Retired history/English/government teacher here (upper middle-aged white guy). The downplay of history and government education (often taught by football coaches here in TX) has played a huge part in the dumbing-down of our population. I was actually accosted by one principal/football coach for reporting the failing grades of some of his athletes, which kept them from playing under the (now watered-down) TX no-pass/no-play rule. He said history was supposed to be an easy A, and threatened me with a bad evaluation if I didn't ease up on my classes. The underfunding of public schools is criminal, and the war on education in TX has been going on for over 40 years.
My list about why I don't like TX and will never set foot there is way too long, so Ill just say, it sucks! From a former teacher, former Republican, and damn Yankee in NE and proud of it. We're not perfect, but at least we don't have crazy politicians who promote death. The Death State where pregnant women and elderly people are just expected to die. You seem intelligent, why are you still there?
@@Carol120454 Part of it is economic, and part of it is that I hate to let the bastards drive me off and win. I don't want to give up my lifelong home, my paid-off house, and virtually all of my extended family to move to some more civilized place.
We have been learning about how stupid texas can be over the covid times and cancun cruz activities. And that texas leads the nation
It was that way when I went to school in Alabama and Kentucky in the 70's also. The sports programs were/are given financial priority and the students who play those sports are passed through regardless of their earned grades.
@@Sailor-Man-Dave i m a guy’s guy building houses and getting the grrls but the centering of sports in America has always bothered me. Of course be athletic but why care so much about team sport , especially pro team sport. Gross
Thank you Ms Viola in putting this factual information that all Americans should know to be aware of what reality is happening right in front of them.
Ie: My wife and I spent over $5,000 to dress up, supply and have the resources to be able to teach when she entered our state educational system. Why are teachers using their own funds to move their job/position forward.
If we don’t wake up and make a change for the betterment of students and that of educators, it will be privatized if we are not protective of our future.
It has all been politicized to the extent that even within its educational platform isolates those educators to be scrutinized because of doing right by students and themselves.
The profits over patients thing in hospitals is so true, my mom is a doctor and she talks about the hospital administrators doing things like making obstetricians go and do checkups for other patients WHILE THEIR PATIENT IS HAVING A BABY so that they can see more patients in a shorter time. Like, imagine being in the middle of having a baby and then your doctor has to just leave you there to go do a checkup so if there's a problem you just have to lie there and wait. It's ridiculous, so many industries that are for the public benefit are run be people who care about quantity over quality and profits over people.
Where’s your mom or man?
Every single developed country on the planet has figured out some form of universal healthcare that won't leave you bankrupt when you use it. Except for the US. That is because of the Republicans.
This happened to me.
🤯
@@KatietheKreator
IMO, the for-profit model doesn't work well at all in healthcare.
It's why Americans pay twice as much, per person, than the citizens of other industrialized countries.
I live in Indiana. The elephant in the room regarding public education is that the public schools are not funded equally. Funding is inequitably funded by zip code. Apply that logic to the military. Imagine if 40% of the military had new uniforms and brand-new equipment, while the other 60% were supplied clothes from Goodwill and 2nd hand stores. All state tax monies collected by property taxes in every state county, should be disbursed equally between all schools.
But then how could nepotism and class struggle keep going on? That s communism to want equality for all.
Good ol american late capitalism will have none of that.
/s
that is also happening in other states and you can see the differences in those schools that have more funding.
School funding should not be by zip code. Absolutely.
I like your analogy. Wish some journalist (actual one) would ask Trump or Harris this and include "used firearms" in the analogy!
THAT WOULD MAKE NATIONAL NEWS!
It's like that all over the US. And with social mobility so low in the US, I've seen papers with titles like "Your Zip Code Is Your Destiny". In France, the public education is uniform no matter whether you're rich or poor. That's the way to do it.
There is a book named “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of 🇺🇸” you summarized exactly what this book context is about. Keep in mind that it all starts at home and schooling should be an accessory to education. Today no one should be stupid but here we are.
I am a Icelander. I find often people uneducated in my country that's usually because I feel like I am ignorant about something. Our education world wide is bad. As a dyslexic. I know so much, but still. I think it's wrong to call victims of poor education "stupid".
@@Skoopyghost they didn't meant that people with learning difficulties are stupid, where did you read that? :/ They said people unwilling to learn, with all the access to the knowledge that we have today are stupid, if they don't educate themselves.
Hi, the part about education starting at home is tough when you have overworked and overwhelmed parents who work at companies where doing their regular job description is considered the bare minimum. You're so drained after work that even the tiniest task of deciding what to eat for dinner is laborious. And when you're stressed overwhelmed and overworked how do you muster up energy to teach a kid or kids. It's tough.
@@mickal777 I completely understand what you are saying. It has to be by design. It is not right that we live to work and pay bills. Life is so much more than those things.
Not everyone has this opportunity
Very well done! Over here in Europe, things are changing for the worse as well. We're not where the U.S. is yet but we're getting there slowly. There's a decrease in long term memory skills (so there is less immediately accesible knowledge), a decrease in reading- and especially writing skills and calculus. When young people attend university there are faculties who provide extra language lessons so they can understand academic discourse. Correcting a thesis or a doctorate can be taxing because some of them are littered with bad grammar/spelling. Primary schools do not pay enough attention to basic grammar skills and long term memory training anymore. So everything is built on shifting sands. We have seen an increase in home schooling since the pandemic for primary school kids.
Banning books is atrocious, I'm from Germany and it is completely unthinkable to ban books here, especially considering our history. Also, the more I hear about the US Education System, the more it sounds like the US is a privately run corporation that benefits the 1%. It's insane.
So you find "Mein Kampf" in schools these days in Germany?
@@Ikkeligeglad As to my knowledge, the book is legal and there is a commentated version of it
@@RubyTheMoray Thanks, good to know.
Greetings from the littel neighbour up north🙂
We will forever be grateful for Johannes Gutenberg. Without his invention of press we probably wouldn't be able to get out of medieval ages.
Many states now provide funds for private and religious schools rather than supporting the public schools. They call it "freedom of choice", but if you can't afford the balance of the tuition or meet the school's admission standards, there is no choice.
As a teacher, I see clearly that knowledge is not valued. Social status is. Social media has made it worse.
@@kyvsthewrld you a) confirmed what the person above said and b) you underlined what they said about the status :P
To be fair, social media has made EVERYTHING worse.
Honest question, do you think this was ever not true? I think anti intellectualism is pretty new, but I suspect that the game was always about social status
@@MustbeTheBassest There were times where knowledge=status.
@@MustbeTheBassest
I am not sure but I do know that after 32 years of teaching kids, the thought of easy celebrity and easy wealth through social media is stronger than it was when I started teaching before social media.
As a person in the American school system I can confirm something, they are encouraged to not actually teach a subject but teach it to the standardized tests
So! Kids brains are still growing - that is why they do a lot of copywork - people don't really start learning until they get to college - that is why the two industries are different.
Stop blaming tests.
Poland has - or at least had,when I was back in school - the same attitude.
Yet Poland ranks way, WAY higher than the US in PISA, which is a practical school abilities test.
@LMB222 True. Testing in and of itself is not the source of the problem. It comes down to what is being tested, what are the motivations of those who design and apply the tests, and what decisions are made with test results. For example, if a cohort has dropping test scores, does that mean extra funding and resources to address a need, or does that mean the school staff are threatened with job loss? Often, test scores are compared across cohorts. For example, a school's Gr. 6 score this year is lower than last year's Gr. 6 score. Does the district then take action? This is a different group of students, who may have also had lower Gr.5 scores.
Collecting data can be good, but poor data management and poor decision making can make test results a false indicator or even a weapon to deteriorate a system. Want to get the public mad at teachers? Make the math standards test really hard this year. Scores drop, and everyone gets mad at teachers (especially when antiuniin journalists get involved.) No one bothered to ask if the test was valid.
@@Antony-ng9yj Totally wrong. School should be the place where you learn critical thinking. But it isn't any more. That is why universities now have to have induction classes where students are taught to read, write and reason. This didn't happen until the 60s - 70s.
You give yourself away when you say "...that is why the two industries are different." Education is NOT an industry, but it is in the process of being industrialised by market capitalism.
@@nick.caffrey 'give myself way' - have you been delving into the mysteries lately - referring to schools and colleges as an industries have been going on since the 70s maybe even before - you are aware schools are incorporated entities - guess that means 'open for business'.
You are aware that in the 60s colleges really started indulging into psychology - WOW the colleges liked that with the focus on 'the child' with the likes of Spock and Holt weighing in with their opinions . Talk show darlings.
Psychology - very marketable.
Lastly, you can pretend that kids and teens can do critical thinking, instead of the slow yearly development of elevated thinking and understanding - neither of which is critical thinking - at best it is them deciding choice A or B .
Critical thinking and Reasoning are adult level skills.
Truly CRUDE AND sad that people in this age and time can be that ignorant yet feel OKAY it’s evil
The people who promote the "Self-made man" are those who had wealth passed to them from their parents then used that money to monetize someone else's idea. It's always a rich and powerful collective preaching individualism to everyone.
This is not really true. It's more of a political lie. In fact around 80% of millionaires in the US are self-made.
Lol my rich cousin is always preaching meritocracy because he feels he deserves what he has." Meritocracy" occurs when a deep desire is met with lucky opportunity under very fortunate circumstances. Lol good luck getting through that small hole when you're poor.
@@marciamartins1992 no matter how I dislike Gladwell for his opinions on work ethics, I must say his book Outliers is a must to read and discusses among others, the thing you just described.
Sure why should people be individuals and be told that they can make something of themselves and raise themselves from poverty? Far better to just whine and complain about how everyone's bad lot in life is someone else's fault. That's FAR more productive.
@@marciamartins1992 Many many people have "gotten through that hole." I don't know how your cousin got rich but somewhere up the line, him or his parent or whatever, did something to merit that wealth. What alternative would you suggest? I'm poor so I'm just going to instead whine and complain about how everything bad in my life is someone else's fault? How does that get you anywhere?
Sadly, an uneducated US population will lead to more division and ultimately its downfall. Strong work in producing and writing this much needed video!
Russia and China are incredibly happy at how stupid we are and how easy it was to destroy our society. They barely had to nudge us because we did most of the work.
@@RuggerDez Article 3 of the Northwest Ordinance (1787) stated: “Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” There were to be lands set aside for those purposes. Most of the schooling offered in the U.S. today excludes religion and morality.
We were 'uneducated' in the 1800s, today's youth at least know electronics, how to operate machinery so as not to be a real ditch digger - progress!
It's deliberate.
@@Antony-ng9yjMost of Gen Z and Gen Alpha can't even use a VPN though.
Hello Ashley. So pleased to see you and others in the younger generations 'picking up the baton' of awareness. My generation (I was born 1942) helped perpetrate the dumbing down of our society. By the time I realized what had taken place, what we had done, I was middle aged. We The People had voted into high offices the destroyers of our society. Recently We The People re elected an amoral criminal, who states publicly that he wishes to suspend our national charter, to be the chief executive officer of our republic. In 1960 I enlisted (USMC) and took an oath in which, among other things, I pledged to "Defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic". Now the enemy will be our chief executive officer. Evidently the problem with a representative democracy is we get the governance we deserve. I have grandchildren whom, like all grand parents, I adore and idolize. Two of my grand children are dark skinned, one of those is special needs. You can't imagine the depth of my concern, fear, anger, rage regarding their future. Their future will be in the hands of people like you and like - minded colleagues who spread the facts. Do not relent, you are paving the path to our national redemption.
Your generation stressed knowledge workers and science class. Thanks, Cold War! And thank you, too, G.I. BILL it was only as the Cold War wound down that we stopped stressing that and education took a real dive.
Today, college is the new high school. Everyone's expected to go an curricula are dumbed down to allow it.
USMC Gen. Smedley Butler wrote a book (_War Is a Racket_) 25 years before you enlisted. He spent more of his time waging wars to defend our Constitutional need for fruit companies to profit than oil companies, but the lessons still hold.
As Chomsky said, if they were tried at Nuremberg, every President we've had since WWII would be hanged as a war criminal.
That's a truly inspiring comment. Thank you!
love this. I hope people will watch and learn. as a non-American I saw this development worsen the last 30+ years. I have lived and worked in America 30+ years ago. this problem in a global problem, but I witnesed, in Europe people have evolved more in these cases. America stayed detained in developing. Capitalism is nothing more than legalise slaverery. keep people in their place to benefit the wealthy . I am stunned how many people flowow anyway.
I’ve been saying that if the government keeps people uneducated, they’re easier to control for 1-2 years now. I’m 16
Also, monolinguism keeps you from foreign sources of information
i live in a conservative state and local elections are coming up for governor, senator, etc. and MAN the fearmongering is FUCKING CRAZY
combine that with the awful education system and youve got yourself a population thats living right under your thumb
@@MissMoontree I would love it if Spanish was taught throughout the school career (to English-only speakers).
... Politically, I don't see that happening.
Have to keep the working class divided and all that.
@@MissMoontree you have no idea. I speak English, German a bit of French and learn Japanese. Each language opens not only the way to thinking but also vast knowledge of all kind in that language - not everything is translated.
@@grmpEqweer when I was in high school I attended a "language class" - where I learned English and German alongside on a high level and for many schools in my country it's normal. How effectively people learn these languages - well, at least they speak on intermediate level and now I work for company, where I use three languages at work. Also a normal thing for Europe.
The most recent election just shows how dumb America truly is.
Really? You’re saying that Harris was a good choice?
@@pallidhand9756 are tariffs any better. Us working class and those in the manufacturing industry are going to get hit financially bad and many people will be kicking out of jobs that make machines, hard labour, and places that are the backbone for many peoples convenient lives. We need welders, we need steel workers, we need most if not all the construction jobs and they are about to be hit hard with these teriffs. And when that happens, housing gets more expensive, food gets more expensive and even smart spending is going to be not enough. Harris at least was a better choice then a man who idealized dictators and wants us common middle class folk to get poor for him and his rich friends.
@@pallidhand9756yep. Better than trump. She was a good candidate.
@@pallidhand9756 next to fucking trump ???? Duh
@@pallidhand9756better than trump definitely.
As a Canadian, I remember in the 1990s watching comedy news asking Americans some basic questions, then having a huge laugh. British and Australians TV comedy did the same things, so did other international comedy shows. It was the joke everyone outside of the US were growing to think, but never said, especially after 9/11.
Canadian here as well, 60yrs old woman. In highschool we were all encouraged to pursue higher learning and I remember the frenzy in applying to universities.
I remember Rick Mercer, the Canadian humorist, who filmed visitors to the Arkansas Capitol building in Little Rock, Arkansas reacting to "news" about the melting of Canada's National Igloo due to global warming. You can't make up this stuff. ua-cam.com/video/BhTZ_tgMUdo/v-deo.htmlsi=xoEGC0of29Jk8xpC
What was the joke?
Well needed video. 20 years ago my friend from the Netherlands brought this to my attention. He called it "dumbing them down." Lots of people graduating high school can't fill out an application for a job..
It seems that students today are not being taught critical thinking skills, objectivity, reason & logic but instead ideologies rooted in feelings meant to appeal to egos. They are being trained to not think. That's not an education but an indoctrination.
Hence the "Pledge of Allegiance" in ALL US Schools, every morning. If that isn't indoctrination, then I wonder what is.
@@phils4634 The Pledge of Allegiance is simply an expression of Patriotism that everyone has (or should have) naturally. To teach that there are infinite genders, THAT is indoctrination. This is not simply a funding issue, like the 1% are choking off funding to make people dumber. Quite the opposite. The push to privatize education is a REACTION to the fact that public schools and their models have been failing us.
Of course 🤷🏻♀️
@@phils4634 What's wrong with the Pledge of Allegiance? If having pride in your country is indoctrination to you, I feel sorry for you.
I'm not even in the US but most comments in this comment section are eerily similar to my complaints for my school 🥲
Can we talk about anti intellectualism being peddled in religious institutions, too? As a Christian, every sector is a complicit
Yes.
Oh god…yeah sounds like my mindset before I went through deconstruction LOL.
Christianity is a business. All of those mega churches and Christian networks will do anything to keep the dollars rolling in. This includes lying, cheating, and supporting any political candidate who will help them maintain power.
Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses are a good example. They've bred generation after generation of window cleaners! They're anti further education because at college your eyes are opened to new ideas and the Watch Tower brainwashing start to unravel!!
Religion thrives off the uneducated, poor and hopeless.
It's interesting this concept of being a 'geek' or 'nerd' in the culture of America. It's like being thoughtful and intelligent is akin to being socially inept, ugly, unpopular etc....
And most especially so among various ethnicities. Doing well academically is vilified as “acting white.” My people perish for lack of knowledge.
Recall the 1980s movie “Revenge of the Nerds”
Great video !
I grew up in Argentina and when we moved back to the US I couldn't believe how far behind education was in regards of math, geography, and everything else. This country is just a business, a big corporation.
So true! My nieces back in Europe have such a broader knowledge than my kids same age here in the US. It’s not comparable and if I’m not sitting down with my kids and teach them basic stuff I’m afraid they would be embarrassingly far behind!
I had an army buddy whose girlfriend was German and hadn’t graduated from high school over there yet (I hasten to add that she was 17 and he had just turned 20). When they got engaged, she was able to come to the USA and live with his parents on the condition that she be enrolled in the local high school (we were stationed far from his parents’ home). It became apparent very early on that she was two years ahead of her American classmates in every subject except English. She was half-crazy with boredom but dropping out was simply out of the question. She lasted about four months before returning to Germany to finish her education. My friend’s dad was a skilled tradesman with his own business, so the local high school was considered “top notch,” and was still lacking. This was back in the early 1990s, and I suspect that the situation has deteriorated. But their romance, fortunately, survived. They had set the date and were planning the wedding when I was discharged.
Teach them!
Tell them to put away the phones and listen to NPR while they work.
Thank you for making this video.
I'm a Boomer. Technically, I'm under-educated, ADHD ,but possess a "gifted" level IQ.
My intellect is often off-putting. I did poorly in school, was labeled "underachiever," ridiculed.
I educated myself, became a skilled musician, was a nationally published author, in print, a welder, a machinist, an engineer, all self-taught.
I was thrust into production factory work. It was mind numbingly boring and tedious. I lobbied for a job that'd challenge me intellectually... no dice. I was labeled, and there I stayed.
Life dealt me some better hands, but socially, nobody understood me, high intellect, low education. I managed to land better, more satisfying work.
In retirement, I continue to educate myself in health, nutrition, because I'm aging. I've too much to do to become decrepit. I try to share my knowledge, but nobody takes me seriously... because they don't understand me, or want to understand me... they are happy being "average Americans."
I spend a lot of time alone... I do not own a TV....
Thanks for the suggestion of that Carr book. I'm at an impasse with technology... need to concentrate on memorization, and just simply turn it off, get things done, no distractions... some call it a "dopamine detox... No tech, no sugar, no TV, no crappy food. No social media.... just get shit done.
BTW, I have to spell check spell check.
dawg ur like that professor dude from farenheight 431
Education and IQ are not related.
by spell-check spell-check do you mean correcting the spell-check system? that’s normal
I identify with a lot of this. Now I don't care if I'm different.
Some of the libraries are getting dumber too. Its unrecognizable from when I was young. Every time I go there the selection of books is smaller and smaller. My city is fairly large and hasn't defunded, but the funds are horribly mismanaged. Instead of buying educational books, supporting community outreach, and offering programming they spend their money on video games, hollywood movies, surfboards, and tents that can be "checked out". Then they turn around and ask people to donate new books for the kids to read. By the time they bought 4 $300 surfboards and 10 new $70 Xbox games, the children could've had plenty to read.
How is a library allowed to buy surfboards & video games?? That’s actually insane 😭
@@aamateur-artistI’ve seen a few libraries with video games (not in my city, but in my city’s suburbs), but I’ve never heard of libraries selling tents 😂
Surfboards? That's so random. Lmao
Still, this is really sad. I'm glad this hasn't happened in the library where I am yet.
@aamateur-artist The video games part seems a little more believable. Libraries have had movies since at least the 90s, so it makes sense that they'd have video games too. The tents and surfboards are shocking though.
@@aamateur-artistVideo games aren't crazy for where I live, but SURFBOARDS!?
Very good points!! I actually broke down in tears when you mentioned that charter schools are expanding, and they are excluding the disabled. We cannot allow this.
I have been a teacher and a lawyer. I agree strongly with your main thesis that Americans are not well-educated and there are powerful interests that want it that way. I would add that schools also want it that way. Rather than emphasizing reading, writing, and analysis, schools emphasize silly games and worksheets and group work. Administrators hate to go in a classroom and see students quietly reading or writing. There is little real reading in schools. Half the time is taken up by classroom management because the students are rude and out of control. Schools often have extra-curricular activities during academic time. There is an anti-intellectual atmosphere in schools. And, I once taught ESL in a charter school, so at least in my states, charter schools do have ESL students. But the ESL students were almost all fluent in spoken English but kept failing the statewide tests so they were kept in ESL classes for 6, 7, or 8 years. They were way behind in reading and writing but were being taught basic English, which they already knew. Because I couldn't teach them what they needed, I left. Those kids were reading way below grade level and are not prepared for high school. Anyway, thanks for the video.
agree, the education system is broken, but as pointed out, it is in the best interest of the rich and powerful to keep it that way.
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@@zlviragcomputers in the classroom - like other countries are doing!
I taught Nursing on the college level and quit after a parent threatened to sue me for failing his little darling that never bothered to show up to school. I made more money working 3 days a week as a staff nurse, not having to spend my time off grading papers and researching lectures. Teachers get the short end in the US.
@@ronlugbill1400 I am going to weigh in with this - there may be a few people who want to keep people 'dumb down', but not most - because most don't care about you or someone else's kids. I'm with those administrators - I too would rather see kids in class playing and happy! Learning at grade level - how about brain level. Admin are not stagnant people, so they over time have come to realize that kids are mandated to be there, and then comes homework - what a ridiculous concept - so most of their childhood is just wasted with nonsense - like 'at grade level '.
So much is demanded for young people to know especially now computers are part of their lives - so where is there room in their brains, and their lives for essays! Like in the adult world we sit around and write essays. Good for admin.
I'm a 70 years old man from a small village in Québec Canada. This video was very instructive. In our public school system we have seen in recent years many teachers leave the profession, because they had to buy with their own money, school supplies.The problem appear to be the same in Canada also, Thanks for that great video.
Does Québec still at least Invest in culture?
@ Yes, Québec has always invested in culture, but the Montreal region is becoming more diversified, population wise.
As a foreigner who live in quebec in the 90’s as a child, the most vivid thing I remember was being shunned by your society for bot speaking french. I will remind you that european languages are foreign in nothr American, too. That said, please becareful with the radiation of dumbness that comes with living next to the USA
Why can't the parents buy the school supply for their kids .
@ Some parents don’t have the financial resources to do so. That’s the darker side of the problem.
Another overlooked factor I observed while working at a charter school. Charter schools are new entities and don't have the large endowments or city money that public schools have. However the government money (at least in California) was disbursed equally over 12 months (and new updates happened in February) . This force a lot of charter school to borrow money in September and August ( New supplies, insurance downpayments, ordering tests) because they don't get enough money at the correct times.. This system leads some charter schools to spend significant amounts of their money on Financing costs (I've heard estimates of 10% being normal from a consultant). And of course in Los Angeles, the companies that invested in charter school debt were part of hedge funds owned by pro-charter politicians. So every dollar diverted form public schools ends up sending only a portion of that to be used for charter school students, a chunk is for the investors.
Do they not get any funding in slow months say july august when closed that could carry over?
They do, but most of them start living annual budget to annual budget, so the money in July and August is going to pay off the tail end of the costs from the previous year, as well as the interest on the financing. They school isn't funded to 'save' money for the next of these cycles
A very informative view. As someone from the UK I have always said that education is the key to freedom, also rationalisation is the competency to seeing what is true and right. We live in a time when people find it easier to be lazy. I am not qualified to offer solutions but have hopes we won't sink....
I am the daughter of immigrants who had a 6th and 8th grade education respectively. However, they always wanted us to have what they couldn’t. I’ve been in and out of libraries since I was 3 years old. My parents had high expectations, and dreams for us. They told us they wanted us to have careers like doctors, lawyers etc. Though I leaned a lot in public school, the majority of my learning was self driven and I picked topics of interest and immersed myself in reading up on those topics. My siblings and I all have college degrees and careers.
I believe it starts at home because teachers can only do so much with the time, resources, and energy they have to educate 20+ kids, a number of whom have behavior problems, disabilities, trauma etc. Sadly, most people believe it is the school’s sole responsibility to educate young minds and when those kids get home they are pacified by electronic devices instead of picking up a book and discovering the world.
Those kids who have behaviour problems are because their parents are thick.
The whole point is that it’s been going on for generations so what do you expect poor students?
As a former teacher, former young person, and now an old person who can look back and critically examine his life's path, I would concur that parents have by far the greatest influence on what a child becomes in later years.
Who cares!
Woah be those who did math using a slide ruler - and sent men into space! Classes were bigger, better run, and more inspiring and teachers had no need for supplies bought by them - even tissue - sent to office and have them deal with it if there was not going to be supplied.
Electronics - that's there world now - not essays.
I'm glad that you started with our endemic anti-intellectualism, a problem we've had in our country from our roots and something we fight against often. It's an ongoing problem and as you've pointed out, it's got worse but I also think it goes hand in hand with another issue--the break down in the sense of collective responsibility as a society because the idea that public education is a public good or that libraries are a public good or that having an educated population--even a basic educated population is a public good seems to also be going away to a degree and that's alarming.
Instead, due to the extreme polarization, we're seeing a total breakdown in that idea so it's "well, we don't need public education. I can send my kid to charter school/private school/homeschool so that they won't need to hear all that liberal" speak and without a care that not everyone can afford such things at least that's how it seems to me, there's a lack of desire to put money into them if it helps wider society anymore and that's alarming and it does stem from the rot they're being told on social media, FOX news, and other stuff.
If everyone went to home school, they couldn't keep us in line.
@@calebcase80That's where it starts, smooth brain. Most parents are idiots and have no idea of basic common sense, or scientific literacy. Home schooling is supported by bureaucratic clowns who stay uneducated about how the world works.
Thanks for this. It's spot on.
Thank you Ashley!!! This is EVERYTHING I HAVE SAID FOR YEARS. If you dumb down the masses, you can control them because they believe anything without checking facts. People have lost their critical thinking skills.
That’s very illuminating to this elderly English man! It explains a lot. I fear we’ve been moving in this direction here for the last few decades since Thatcher. For example, one of our prominent Conservative politicians changed the school system back to something like rote learning whereas we had previously prided ourselves on education making people think. Rote learning gets better exam passes in the short term but at the cost of undemanding children.
I’ve been puzzled for years at the right-wing hatred of what they call ‘woke’. To me, being woke really means being aware of things, surely a good thing? But they have demonized it so that being woke now means being anti-establishment or, as your video so eloquently explains, being anti-capitalism. That, of course, is what the capitalists and their political puppets fear. A dull population is a pliant population.
America (and us now) has a very high percentage of people educated to tertiary level. Does this mean university level, as it does here? Don’t your universities teach students to think for themselves?
This is such an important conversation to have. It reminds me of that scene from A Bug’s Life when Hopper was making that speech about why it’s a bad idea to let an ant get away with standing up to them. “If one stands up to us then they all might stand up.” It’s a lesson we should all learn.
Me too!! That scene lives rent-free in my mind!!!++
The fact your best example for this is a children’s movie says a lot right there, this comment is incredibly American
@@cashnelson2306 I take wisdom wherever it comes from. Why should it matter if it comes from a kids movie or some philosopher? It’s the same lesson.
I work for a company that exclusively caterers to schools. One of my bosses literally told me schools are businesses. They almost had a heart attack when a school returned a $700 product w/o ordering a replacement because "we just lost out on $700". Mind you, the company grossed over $80 mil last year. What is $700 to 80 mil?? Some of these schools have $2k to spend for 6 months of supplies.
thats why you americans have to buy school supplies for your teachers lol. thats how pathetic it is over there in the US.
How about $300 for a school year? That's my experience.
If you want to know why they only have that money for supplies, go to the district or Superintendent's office and count the number of expensive cars in the parking lot. They have PLENTY of money but it's waste and corruption that eats it all up.
"caterers"
I figured this out 50 years ago..tried to wake up as many as possible..glad you have a platform to educate people...
Brilliant Ashley! Here n Brazil - where I live, the system is the same, and as in the US the extreme right is busy working to destroy what little has been constructed to help people! Horrific...😢
I was a teacher for 20+ years, working with poor, special education students. I had had the good fortune to receive a pretty good public school education and what the school I taught at offered as an "education" was horrifying. The only saving grace in that school was that it was a vocational school - another kind of education that is undervalued in the US - so students were able to gain useful, marketable skills. But I had students - at the HS level, mind you - who did not know what sounds corresponded to which letters!! How?! It is outrageous and depressing. We, the working people, need to unite, organize, and fight the enemy, the ruling class who send THEIR kids to bougie schools. This is a fantastic video! I hope people herd the important warning you are sharing. We all need to do as Lucy Parsons demanded so long ago when she fought on behalf of the worker.
You are absolutely correct in everything you said. I am so ashamed of America. People all around the world pity us. Yet the world relies on us. We are letting the whole world down.
I'm a 64 yo white man, born and raised in Detroit. Luckily ,my parents were able to put my siblings and myself through a catholic school education. I feel like I have a slightly better educational groundwork than I may have gotten in the Detroit public schools. But there was no money for college, and I've just been barely staying above water ever since. The powerful forces that drive the actions you described are certainly in it for the money, and have no interest in this country or its future. Voting Democrats into office is just a start. We need more voices such as yourself to educate people, because at my age I'm afraid they just won't listen to me.
I'm European and more of the left so don't take it badly, but how can Democrats be better if they defend a sexual pervert like Joe Biden's son, or Kamala Harris getting into debt and paying celebrities to support her? I also understand that the Democrats allowed polluting projects to be done in Alaska, that is, the Republicans are the worst of the worst, but the Democrats are no better either
Ms Viola I just discovered you. 'LOVE YOUR WORK'. Your eloquence, research, referencing, perspective, passion and presentation is AMAZING! More of your truth telling please. Former Aboriginal Australian Education Worker
It sucks when you realized this years ago but are powerless to change it. I have a child who needs special education services and our local public school is best equipped to handle them. There is a private option but last time I checked it cost 27k for 1 year of tuition with a side of religious propaganda. Even that private school only accepts certain students so taking resources away from the public schools means a stressed system.
Get a library card. Educate yourself. You can do it too! Show them all!👍👍
Vote.
Most people are just letting things happen by either not voting or voting for those keeping the system in tracks...
@@ericeverett2353Library card = Hobo University degree
I would recommend homeschooling by encouraging reading. Never shoehorn in any of your political, religious and philosophical ideas too. It should be about critical thinking.
I really recommend homeschooling, as a homeschooler myself !! Only thing is if you do that, i really hope you would socialize them a lot:D you can pick out what you want to learn too !
I absolutely love this 🙌🏾. My friend and I frequently have these conversations. It’s literally mind boggling how this society is ran. I’m not going to lie. Sometimes I feel a bit anxious thinking about “how” or what can be done to change things. But I have to remember that it’s these types of conversations and illuminations that are actually meaningful and making a difference. I think the more aware we start to become, the more we start to self educate, and elevate our own consciousness. It will inadvertently change the system. Slowly but surely it’ll collapse and the blissfulness of a new society may not happen in our lifetime but hopefully we can be the generation that starts it✨❤.
This comment is it. I have the exact thoughts as you, we can do our best for the next free thinkers of the future generations.
Nothing will change until the source of the problem has changed. Over the past 40 years wealthy people have gotten control of all 3 branches of government. All of the 6 major news media are controlled by a wealthy person or persons which have us believing that giving money to wealthy people will help everyone. While we fight over abortion, guns, racism, immigrants, religion, et cetera, the wealthy are robbing us blind. Like the gilded age of 100 years ago the present day excesses will eventually return to normal.
@dinyhotmail I've seen this comment more than once. Do you expect us to scroll through 307 comments to find your name? Most people just copy and paste their comments where they want them to be seen. Or this is a scam.
when its laid out in front of us like this... how the hell does this even make sense!!? and how have more people NOT caught onto this yet???
That is kinda the whole point. With an educated and thinking population this would not be possible.
They aren't capable of "catching on" because of the way your system works, as shown.
Ignorance is bliss
This is a better video than many provided by historians and financial experts. Happy to subscribe.
What you are saying about Americans is true.
I first noticed the overall ignorance when I met a bunch of American soldiers in Europe.
I found, that I knew far more about their home country than they.
Nevermind Europe or the rest of the world.
When it came to overall knowledge, they were far behind practically any European.
Then, later, I discovered that American public schools also limp behind their European counterparts.
A lot of their students not able to properly read and write, after 12 years of schooling.
But then, that ought not be surprising,
that financing of public schools is lacking, in order to support private and religious schools.
That, pure and simple, is complete idiocy.
If people don't want their kids to attend public schools, let them pay in full for the private and religious schools.
So:
Take financial support away from private and religious schools, and support the public schools properly!!!
They get millions as a budget each year. It is mostly sent on admin
We need those ignorant people for cannon fodder, so the rich can profiteer off war. Educated folks would know better and not stand for it.
Retired public school teacher here. Now I know why teachers are leaving the profession in massive numbers! Parents and student behavior is out of control. It's impossible to teach anything. Talk about THAT. P. S. America doesn't have a monopoly on ignorance.
So true. I'm retired and travel the world, I spend a good a mount of time with young adults....dumb as hell! It is not just happening in US schools. But What she is not telling is that there are elites around the world pushing the dumbing down of the population. Here in the US it's call red for Ed a communist org started by a Bernie Sanders supporter. We have teachers unions in league with the EU and the WEF teaching every but how to how to think. The whole idea is to dumb down generations and then control the dummies. Look at the US version of TikTok massively different than TikTok in China. Oh and by the way it's the democratic party that has issues with letting kids and their tax dollars go to private schools of their choice.
it's hard to get people to mobilize for the purpose of improvement of one's self and environment en masse. But! active participation in local, healthy social circles can make a huge difference! It's WAY too easy to stay inside all day and do nothing with anyone, but going out on a limb to meet people is power. there's true strength in community.
Needed to hear someone put this into words. As a college kid who commutes, I find it difficult to make connections at school at times, but I've been pushing myself to talk to more people, go to events, join clubs/ organizations close to home or on campus. It's made an impact for the better on understanding other people and myself, just pushing myself to get out of my comfort zone.
Ashley I see that you are a very educated lady and I applaud you for that. About a billion years ago when I was in school (oh I forgot to say that I am Canadian and not American) and I grew ill my parents thought that a GED school course would be good to keep my school work up to date. When this course arrived I dove right into it but I had already learned this material years before. When I complained to my father he did not believe me. I told him to bring me the answers to the problems that he kept at home, ask me all of the questions and we will see what happens. Well I got every question correct. He was surprised. He then ordered the program for 3 years more advanced than my grade at the time and I learned that. A lot of things taught in American schools are not factual. All Americans celebrate Columbus Day and celebrate how Christopher Columbus discovered America . Well Columbus never set foot in North America. On his first voyage he landed somewhere in Cuba or The Dominican Republic. Now if the American school system taught that Columbus discovered the AMERICA's, yes he did. But in actual fact the Vikings had a settlement in Newfoundland Canada around 1000AD. That was 3-400 years before Columbus was even born. Good luck with the school system. God Bless Joe Scott
Privatized prisons are one of the grimmest signs of current conditions to me. We've primed kids to fail. Then, when they fail, when some inevitably turn to crime to continue to survive, we turn them into product. There's zero effort to reform them. You serve your time stewing at the society that put you there, get out and, in all likelihood, commit crime again and become a recidivist.
Meanwhile, the rest of society sits around and acts like these people had a choice in the matter. You see this discourse come out when "non-criminals" discuss what continuing punishments should happen to people AFTER THEY'VE SERVED THEIR TIME; things like loss of voting rights, lack of functional halfway housing, public acceptance of most industries refusing to hire former inmates without consequence. Most people do not want to be around people who have served even a single day of their life in prison, and they do not want to build any sort of support structure to get them out of it.
As far as most of them are concerned, if you're an idiot at any point in your entire life - even for a day - and by their exclusive definition of idiocy, you need to be doomed to a hellish life of out-of-sight, out-of-mind, and that you deserve to be bought and sold.
Prison: the place where slavery is still legal in the US.
We really need to fix the 13th amendment to make slavery illegal ALWAYS.
We have what's called the "school to prison pipeline" and at one point I was probably headed, with my two younger siblings, right down that chute. I decided to get us out of there and while life was still not easy, at least we didn't end up slaves in prison.
I agree, It costs far less to educate people than to keep them in prison!
It's true... have sex with just ONE goat...! (LOL, old Scottish joke) But I get your point. For-profit prisons have the incentive to incarcerate more, not fewer, people. Kind of bass-ackwards y'ask me.
@@jamespppyacek342 The goat joke is an awesome reference. First time I head it, I laughed so hard, and it speaks such a clear truth about how people get labeled by society. People tend to want to remember someone for the worst day of their life, not the best.
I am a retired college professor. I taught at college for 15 years. Each year the students coming into class were less able to do college level work. To my surprise, the students who were home schooled were better at studying, but not as informed about scientific methods.
Interesting. I've been in and out of the teaching profession in various venues and what I see is an increase in bad behavior, apathy, and emotional outbursts. MUCH more Special Ed kids than there used to be.
It is sad that Universities and Colleges are admitting and enrolling students who are less able to do college level work. I remember in my younger years I was told that teriary educated people were much more intellectual than the people who are not tertiary educated. I noticed that too many don't know beyond their degree, and. only know extra when they feel like it, or are in their favoured social group or subculture.Some act like a dysfunctional family in affluent surroundings. Never expect teriary educated idiots to educate, or set shining examples to people who are working class. Thank you for letting me know that some home schooled students are not well informed about scientific methods.
@@jamespppyacek342 I can understand what you mean by Special Ed. In primary or elementary school, I was almost sifted to. a special school . Now it is call the special school, special development school. Forget the students with Down Syndrome or retardation. Put a child that has learning difficulties, absenteeism due to doctor appointments, or does not fit with a certain group at school, and in special development school the first lesson will be practice bad behaviour and retardation enhancement.
This is highly disturbing. What’s most problematic is the general population is falling for the “public schools are bad” rhetoric and supporting privatizing efforts more and more versus standing up for public education and demanding improvements.
You see it a lot in homeschooling circles too. Yeah, you got your kid out of public school because you were in a position to be able to while leaving the rest of the generation on a sinking ship.
I agree with you. People should make greater demands on public education. This should not be accepted and just let go like its just something we have to live with.
I have no children. I want a better education system because I am going to have to live with these kids as grownups.
Thank you for stating this! I went to the "poor" public school in my town. I am still friends with many high school friends. We were not trained for the service industry, or any ther vocation. We had vocational high schools that students could opt to go to as a sort of last ditch choice if they were not attending school, or causing problems, but everyone I know went on to either own their own business, I am a professional writer, I have an ex who is a successful screenwriter. Several own construction companies. My daughter went to my high school's rival, the wealthy kid high school, so I know that the education was essentially the same. The only marked difference between her wealthy high school and my poor one were the scope of extra curricular opportunities, she got to go to San Diego for an end of junior high trip, and the Macy's parade and England's NY parade (We are in AZ). My school have any of those opportunities but that is not a matter of education that is parents having the funds to bank roll those trips. Each of her trips cost us around $2500, which I paid with earnings from my writing career that I was able to achieve with my "poor" high school education.
You hit the nail on the head with social media and technology. That is one common thread running through everyone I know. We read books. I raised my daughter to love to read just as much as I do, and 6 years out of high school she works as a successful writer as well.
This idiotic behavior has been going on for a long time.
Just look maybe 30 or 40 years back, and who were the best students at North American Universities?
Asians!
Mostly Japanese, Chinese, Koreans.
Why?
Not because of their great private and religious schools, but because of their good public schools, and the insistence that they actually learn in school.
Insistence by their parents and teachers.
How about learning other languages in school?
In North America, Students have no pressure on them to learn Latin even if they want to pursue professions like Medicine or Biology.
Nevermind any other language.
While for instance, in China, kids begin to learn English in grade one!
I don't know when they now start to learn other languages in European schools, but it was always early and probably is now.
What a great explanation of the issues you outlined. Here in the UK there is an issue with the new government stopping the tax relief on parents paying private ( Charter?) schools fees. I believe that there are some scholarships to these fee paying schools however I’m sure the majority of students are children of wealthy parents. Some of those parents argue that they give up luxuries, like holidays, to pay school fees however I guess they are in the minority. I believe, admittedly without evidence that Public schools cannot always attract the best teachers given the salaries paid by Private schools. The elite Private schools ( unfortunately called Public schools here in the UK) like Eaton provide most of the UK Prime Ministers and that one fact sums up your observations in the US system.
I have found a small amount of inner peace knowing I am able to name all 3 branches of government.
Same here ❤
I figured out how to recreate the wild with Aquaculture~! On how to make fish to grow 5 to 6 inches a month.. Same goes for really fast plant growth also~! I am the only person on the planet, that knows what I know! With many more things you can't learn in the School'$ ~!! So I had to learn it all on my own with connecting the dots of only the facts~ I had just about every fish you can have in the tropical fish tanks, etc... To educate myself~! Because you can't get it all from any school~! So what you know can it print money~? Or can you eat it~?
If not, you are getting the wrong education~! Because you can't eat money! But a fish & the best only planets you can! You just have to scrap your OPINIONS BAISED MINDSET'S To have
it work! If you are not educated right you end up joining the Military or going to jail! Or be someone else'$ $lave! Because the Business man just wants you smart enough to work a job & to know nothing else! The gov needs you just smart enough to go to war'$ for profits! & all the no future worthless jobs! The question for you~^~ is with what you know~?
Does it have what is needed to have something to offer other people minus your employer'$~! What do you have to offer that deals in real results of things that matter~?
Knowing three Branches of the Gov will not feed you~! It all will not give you anything to offer! Because if you take money out of it all What else do you have to offer!
Only you can set your self FREE~ Or you are living an elusion to what is right & wrong!~ When only the worst kind of people gravitate to being in control over us/you~!
I can't 😮😂
Shoutout to my 8th grade civics class
@@DellaWatson-cz3mq Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
Legislative is Congress, Judicial is the system of courts (from local courts up a hierarchy to the Supreme Court), and the Executive is the President and the Cabinet (the advisors and heads of various government organizations)
Thank you for the video, Ashely. I’m a grandfather who is alarmed by the education levels in Canada, as well. Grandma and I have purchased school supplies for our grandkids, helped them to read and taught them to print and then to develop their handwriting. We’ve had their friends come over and joke that we have more books than their library. I actually have some sets of encyclopedias that they use for seeing how things have changed and how they haven’t. I’m disabled and on a small pension, so we’re limited in what we can do. Cindy (my much better half) teaches reading skills to some kids after school is done. With the election I am very afraid for our neighbours to the south. I’m even more afraid for the welfare of children in schools, and what will happen to teachers. We’ll keep doing what we can and praying for children and teachers in the U.S., as well as here in Canada. Please keep informing people, and keep educating. Stay safe, and God bless you.
The American ruling elite had keep the poor poorer, its poor citizen uneducated for decades. The elite don't like peer competition.
A friend of mine and I met overseas while working. We became best friends and have maintained contact even after 21 years. This year will mark our 21st anniversary. He was my best man at my wedding. He moved from the US to the UK 15 years ago and has never looked back. After living in the UK for the first decade, his children were born here and attended school here. It wasn’t until they started school that he realized how different his American education was and how they had been misled about the history of America.
They were taught that they were the heroes during the war with the British and that the British were the villains. In reality, it was the opposite. Columbus wasn’t the first European to set foot on the shores of a new world. Others had been there before him, including the Welsh. He also discovered that the American education system is designed to keep the majority of Americans uneducated. Only those who are privileged and wealthy will succeed. These are not my words; they are the words of an American who now resides in Surrey, England.
I came across this video today when i was already having a terrible day and this video infuriated me even more. I'm 25, and I've always known and talked about these things especially in high-school. I'm sick of the greed of corporations and the government, I'm sick of not being able to afford a quality of life that I and everybody in the world and united states deserve. There's enough wealth to go around, enough resources to create more wealth and so on. There's no reason for ANYONE to amass a 300+ billion dollar net worth, it's sickening. The will of the few affect the lives of the many for greed power influence and profit and we are to uneducated to come together as the majority to implement change in our own government. This is my rant to blow off some steam after having a terrible day and being reminded of how messed up the "system" is being ran and nothings being done to change it.
First off, money is digitized and worth is judgmental.
Secondly, you are right to be angry - you put in 13 years of your childhood, your life for a worthless piece of paper that has no true value. No making up that childhood - plus the extra time spent on homework - for what?
You think you know what you deserve. That's where you're wrong. You don't.
I'm glad to have found this video. I'm French, English is a second langage to me. On numerous occasions I saw American's people struggling with reading comprehension. They misunderstanding the idea of a post for example. A bad level at reading, made them so much easier to manipulate. Harder for them to seek compromise. They don't see the nuances of the world, only the world in a manichean way
As an 80 y/o ex-academic, i applaud your videos and think you can never have too big an audience. I’d only add that critical thinking, so essential to reversing the further dumbing down of the generations, has to be acquired the old-fashioned way, through the back-and-forth of classroom exchange. Don’t see how it get very far advanced online. You’ve identified huge problems and i can only say best of luck solving them all. You’re certainly doing your part
Except you can rarely have conversations about anything even slightly controversial in K-12 classrooms. Parent disagrees with evolution/ climate change/ birth control/. slavery and so and and you're done.
My device ain’t too bad a thing-it brought me your excellent insights here. Well written & presented thangQ
Too many people are missing the foundations of logic, and have no methodology to separate what is verifiable truth or baseless assertion in a reliable manner. It was an absolute revelation when I took a philosophy course as an adult. Excellent video!