Dumb Trump supporters raise mortgage rates, reduce money for Social Security and Medicare, and Make America A Laughing Stock.

  • TwoGems@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We deeply need educational reform. Perhaps even a fairness doctrine for social media. It’s just a problem we can’t keep ignoring. And homeschooling needs a better set of standards so you don’t have Qanon mom #5000 teaching her kids the earth is flat.

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      Holy fucking shit does homeschooling need better standards.

      My mom wouldn’t send me to school because she was afraid I’d get “indoctrinated by all the liberal propaganda in the Alabama public school system”.

      Needless to say, I’m mostly self-educated.

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      Have you watched Shiny Happy People on Netflix? It seems a lot of home schooling was being pushed by the group the Duggars were in. The goal was to brainwash these kids into a certain way of thinking, then get them into positions of power in the government. I can’t remember who, but they said one guy made it to Congress.

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      The U.S. is reaping destructive misery by failing to progressively raise education levels back when it had the opportunity during the last 60 years