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In reply to the discussion: Well, it has finally been verified... [View all]jaxexpat
(6,849 posts)This has been the case for at least the last 50 years. The blatancy of its commitment to mediocrity, however, is relatively new and normalized in tandem with the philosophy of "participation is winning". (coincidental to the burgeoning populations in "gated" communities and prisons) Really, there's been no serious attempt to educate the masses for decades now.
Part of this is the result of centuries of classism, wherein only the upper classes are exposed to education, which the framers took no effort to remedy even as they acknowledged its critical importance to the quest for a lasting democracy. Yeah, those guys appear to have encouraged antipathy to monarchy while sustaining the trappings of a class of "nobility". And did so without shame. But to be fair, their thinking was not based in knowledge of the French revolution where people expressed their feelings toward the "nobility" with exuberant egalitarianism.
But I think the greater part is the power given to "school boards". These are populated by persons elected from the general public who generally have no knowledge of the actual science of educating. What could go wrong?