• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    Literacy and life-long learning go down. This is the ideal scenario for republican overlords who need to trick people into voting for them.

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      This is what Texas wants. The fascists that run the state want to hand the whole responsibility of education over to private industry (because kickbacks), and what better way than to erode the public trust or public schools than by slowly enshittifying them.

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    This deliberate gutting of schools, and by extension students’ and society’s futures, makes me want to scream. I give up. The US had a good run.

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    One strategy among his planned overhaul — called the New Education System, or NES — was to close libraries at 28 schools [eventually 85] out of the district’s 274 total and turn them into “team centers.” It would accomplish two goals, he said: create a place to send “disruptive” students after removing them from class as well as an environment to send high-achieving students for enrichment.

    … these schools — and the entire school district — serves a student population that’s overwhelmingly Black and Latino.

    So much to talk about. This is in Texas, btw.

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    Kids can’t learn about revolution or eating the rich. It’s a damned shame what conservatism has done to this country.

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      Oh it gets worse. The article says after they empty a library, they fill it with “teams” of “disruptive students” as well as “teams” of “high-achieving students”.