There was one good thing about New Orleans.

I got to eat a bunch of shrimp for a very good price.

Does that make you feel better that we are letting people fail? That seems to be what you’re advocating for.

Probably because you can’t read, or you’re incapable of admitting you might have some wrong ideas. I’d wager it’s the latter.

These people aren’t “failing” because they don’t do well in school, just like people aren’t “succeeding” if they do well in school. We’re telling students that they’re failing or succeeding, but that’s all.

What you’re advocating for is a system where we destroy the self-esteem of most students by telling them they’re failures because they’re not cut out for academia. We’re not living in a Disney fairytale where everyone is “supposed” to go to college, or whatever metric for “success” you have in your head that’s dependent on academics.

You don’t seem like someone who has much world experience, so I suggest you get out there and see ways of life different from your own. You’ll find that many people who you thought were “failures” because they did poorly in school are actually quite successful and happy. Meanwhile, I’m sure you personally know many college graduates who are downright miserable. But hey, they “succeeded,” right?

I’m referring to forcing students to attend school even though the majority of them will end up in service jobs that don’t require the education they received.

For most of them, it is a waste of time. But you think they should still be forced to go because it makes you feel good.

Crying “mental health” is a distraction from the disparity in wealth. It’s patronizing and ineffective. The vast majority of people forced into mental health care see it as a joke and a punishment, just like rehab.

People are miserable and lost because the only paths that seem available to them are serving for peanuts or taking advantage of others.

We need to start looking in different directions and valuing different things if we want these problems to be solved.

the country is going to need a new underclass.

Which is the old underclass? If you notice, most students ended up in service jobs anyways.

If anything, people are starting to wake up to what a waste of time and effort school is for the vast majority of students that are forced to attend.

But hey, it makes you feel good so I guess that counts for something.

Schools were always indoctrination mills.

None of this matters. Even when reading and math scores were higher, most students still ended up in service jobs that didn’t require higher level reading or math.

Man, novels are really what killed what love of reading I could have had.

I absolutely fucking hated reading the shit that was forced upon me in school. It’s like forcing someone to listen to a song or watch a movie. It genuinely makes me sick even to this day.

Thankfully, I found out that I actually enjoyed reading the textbooks, so I’m still reading textbooks to this day.

We do a great disservice to people by spreading the idea that novels are the only thing they are expected to read on their own.

being an effective teacher takes years of experience and schooling to teach effectively

I disagree. Some people make great teachers, and most people don’t.

Not really. Sounds more like you’re insecure and flustered.

Try to learn how to take criticism 😎

I’ve been to new orleans and it sucked.

You can drink in public and everyone pisses in the street because all the stores charge people to use their bathrooms.

This was removed for “trolling,” but I wasn’t trolling and stated objective fact.

These moderators are a joke that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

Always check the modlogs to see what these clowns are trying to keep from us.

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