re: I'm convinced education's steep decline began and continues today for 3 main reasons!

It’s because most teachers are liberals. Liberals cannot instill discipline well. Bath in your mess. Public schools shouldn’t resemble a prison and prison life, but yet they have been identical to a prison for over 100 years. Kids are catching on and have lost all faith. You can’t lie to kids anymore, research is to easily attainable, you can’t indoctrinate them with false lies anymore, they see through it and you as an adult/teacher lose all credibility after. School has always been free daycare, you don’t learn much other than STEM past 8th grade. They teach US history 3 times by the 11th grade, why? Use high school to only teach STEM and HVAC, Electrician, nursing, autotech, cosmology. You will see quick results if education would switch to a hands on learning like technical school. Kids are bored because school is taught in a boring manner. I promise you, think back as a student, were you ever bored during shop class, ag class, welding? but guarantee you were bored to death in English IV.

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There is no place for religious indoctrination in public schools.

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Agreed - too broad

Christian indoctrination only

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. Removal of good, old fashioned discipline - when teachers/administrators loss the ability to spank a student, the classroom was changed forever and not for the better. Today, students will tell you that you even touch them in any way that they're going to sue you. These days a student can curse you out, walkout of your class, bully/assault others, bring drugs to school, steal and destroy school property and they will be suspended for a few days, but will be right back in your classroom.

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I can tell you without a doubt this isn’t it. I was paddled a few times as a student in the late 90s. So we’re a ton of my peers. We were still all shitheads.

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Then send your kids to a private Christian school.

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Sure, that's a stop gap option

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1. Shitty parents
2. Liberal teachers
3. Godless culture

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Points 1 and 3 are very true, but being liberal or conservative has nothing to do with the current educational system today. Regardless if you're conservative or liberal, today's public school teacher better learn to play the game, or I promise you, that teacher will not be on the roster for next year.

In a nutshell, the big wigs want you to do the best you can teaching, keep the circus underneath the tent (good classroom management) and make sure you make the numbers look good at the end of the year (at any means possible), so everyone will be happy, even if it's a complete lie!

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The real answer is shrinking budgets

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If this was the issue, why are private schools doing exceptionally better at lower per student spending?

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The real answer is shrinking budgets

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. The US is 4th in spending on public education

1. The creation of the federal dept of education
2. The breakdown of the nuclear family

3. Parents that don’t prioritize education

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Should be all that the secularist in here need to know. It’s so glaringly obvious.

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I'm biased, obviously. But if I were a secular person who was fairly traditional/valued wholesome things, I'd want my family to live in a culturally Christian environment.

We have lots and lots of evidence that these worldviews (conservatism, classical liberalism, etc.) just cannot be sustained very well without something with deeper roots holding them in place. Especially when you're in a field/environment that has really heavy influence from hardcore progressivism (Freire indoctrinated).