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jaxexpat

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11. You may well have something there. My mother taught elementary school.

Mon Jan 3, 2022, 08:55 AM

Jan 2022

She quit when, in her words, "the system gave up on the students". A self-entitled "crust" of know-it-alls seems to run every community's school district. It's unfortunate for these communities that "conservative" fiscal practices have essentially tasked these cabals to gut the education system in the guise of "budgetary concerns". It is my hypothesis that any region's population held in detention facilities is directly proportional to the number of people living in gated communities.

What is freedom? First, we must understand the "prison of one's own mind".

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"For the Jan. 6 anniversary, I kept thinking about schools - how we spent 50 years killing civics [View all] elleng Jan 2022 OP

I don't think we ever really "taught" kids pfitz59 Jan 2022 #1

I was taught 'civics' in public schools, elleng Jan 2022 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2022 #4

I had a "civics" workbook in 7th grade. It was full of basic... TreasonousBastard Jan 2022 #3

We weren't tracked; elleng Jan 2022 #5

I was taught a shell of civics in 7th grade, no_hypocrisy Jan 2022 #6

Those applying to a lot of medical, dental, and veterinary schools used to have this as requirement. hlthe2b Jan 2022 #7

sputnik rampartc Jan 2022 #8

Public school systems abandoned the ideal of social mobility in favor of a permanent caste system sop Jan 2022 #9

You may well have something there. My mother taught elementary school. jaxexpat Jan 2022 #11

Priorities stillspkg Jan 2022 #10

We're asking too much of America's underfunded educational system and not enough of our sop Jan 2022 #12