General Discussion

It all goes back to Dubya (no shining light himself) and the institution of the testing program. Teachers stopped actually teaching and started "teaching to the test". Critical thinking skills went by the board. That was bad enough to begin with, but then Covid happened, and kind of along with that, the so-called "parental rights" movement, also supported by RepubliKKKans, which started the book-banning and also questioning exactly WHAT teachers were teaching in the classrooms. Now, "is our kids learning?" Well, hardly. Not unless their parents encourage them to defy all this crap and go learn for themselves, which only educated parents are likely to do. Hence, the dumbing down of America.