> Schools have stopped educating in favor of test metrics, making sure the worst students pass, and pushing borderline indoctrination of controversial, left-ish values.

As someone who was in public education less than 10 years ago, the last part plainly untrue. In fact, several states will soon require displaying the 10 commandments in public school classrooms, which seems pretty “right-ish” to me.

Homeschooling is a symptom of the atomization of American society - affluent people are retreating into their bunkers in suburbia and withdrawing from civil society based on a shared psychosis regarding “critical race theory” and “wokeness”, neither of which are taught in public schools.

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SauntSolaire 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> In fact, several states will soon require displaying the 10 commandments in public school classrooms, which seems pretty “right-ish” to me.

That tells you way more about the (current) politics of the local government than it does about the politics of the median teacher. It might actually indicate the opposite - no one would go to the effort of mandating pride flags at the school I went to, seeing as they were already hung in every single classroom.

	▲	csb6 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why would hanging pride flags in every room be comparable to showing the ten commandments in every room? A poster of the commandments is promoting religion in a secular school, and the flag promotes human rights for queer people. Why would a pride flag be controversial to anyone who isn’t a religious zealot?

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Izikiel43 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do privilege walks count? Which seem to foster victim mentality?