• orclev@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The US education system is a complete trainwreck. The teachers are underpaid to the point it should be criminal, and as a consequence many of the teachers are also poorly educated themselves and a lot of them are also technically illiterate as a consequence. IT departments are also underfunded, and what technical training and support they should be providing to teachers often doesn’t happen. This isn’t universal of course, there are highly educated and technically literature teachers, but they’re few and far between.

    Even worse the invasion of school boards by both the MAGA cult and Karens has turned schools into political battlegrounds where oftentimes the most successful teachers aren’t the ones who are skilled at teaching, but the ones who are best at politicking and sucking up to administration.