> the general anti-intellectual atmosphere

If I may humbly submit, this is not without justification, considering the unadulterated excrement that has been coming out of our institutions of higher learning. There are a lot of people at universities receiving comfortable taxpayer-funded salaries who spend an awful lot of time disparaging the American spirit.

> public education in america has been pretty bad for a while

Large parts of public education in America is currently a loop of tax dollars that cycle between politicians who shovel an ever-increasing amount of money in and teachers' union leaders that get paid very well and return some money in the form of far-left political activism and donations to those same politicians. Actually teaching kids is at best a fourth or fifth priority.

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jonnybgood 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

What is the American spirit to you? It seems to not include political activism. Or at the very least political activism you disagree with.

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netfortius 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A country were a lot of its citizens don't have access to basic human or social needs, and equate a demand for that, already available in the rest of developed world, to "far left political activism" - that is really ironic. There is nothing left on the left (pun intended) in today's America.

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Henchman21 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sports teams and "after school activitie" are a much much higher priority than teaching. It isn't even close. It seems the only thing we prioritize in education is... entertainment? I'm sure that will be GREAT in a few generations?

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monkey_monkey 6 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Couching nonsense in faux-politeness just makes you look even more googly-eyed.

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gchamonlive an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Could you elaborate on what constitutes far-left political activism?

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peyton an hour ago | parent [-]

I don’t know if this counts as activism, but I was at my university’s Faculty Club and a faculty member walked over and immediately started bitching about Donald Trump without introducing themselves. Like, you’re supposed to be in the business of developing people. What a gigantic waste of time and money.

	▲	tzs 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What about that counts as far left activism? Nearly every Republican who was in Congress in 2014 would have described at least 3/4 of what Trump has done this term as illegal and totally unacceptable, and would have described at least half of the rest as incompetent. Unless you can make a case that since 2014 the country has moved so far to the right that even 2014 Republicans are now "far left", about the only thing you can infer from someone bitching about Trump is that they are probably not far right. (Even that one is pretty iffy because he's pissed off a lot of the far right now too).
	▲	monkey_monkey 5 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> I don’t know if this counts as activism, I do. It doesn't.
	▲	jonnybgood 25 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If they were instead lauding Trump would you also see that as a waste of time and money? If they aren’t doing this in the classroom I don’t see the issue.