Comment

Comment by oldmancoyote

How do you disrupt public education? You do what certain political activists have done during the past 70 or so years.

1) You relax the laws that require public education using the rubric that private schools will allow for competition and force improvement. It is no accident that fewer families dependent of public schools weakens support for public schools. It also means that political and religious agendas can be entered into American education where before they were forbidden.

2) You couple that with a long term propaganda campaign about how bad public schools are including portraying teacher union activists in the worst possible light in the news.

3) You starve funding for education to the point where, for example, California goes from the foremost example of excellence in education to one of the worst.

4) When teachers start to rebel at the corruption of American education, you vilify teachers claiming they are taking American education hostage.

The idea that technology offers a solution to a political issue is not realistic.

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton