The education industry has been lowering the bar for admission to higher learning for half a century or more, while dumbing down the content of high school and even primary school education. All because we can’t have children feeling bad.

It’s terribly ironic that things like calculus, linear algebra and matrix manipulation were being weeded out of the curriculum, right before machine learning took off.

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autoexec 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> while dumbing down the content of high school and even primary school education. All because we can’t have children feeling bad.

I suspect that it's a lot less about making children feel better and more about keeping the general population stupid and unable to think critically so that the ruling class can exploit them easier. The children of the ruling class are still given the opportunity to be well educated by private institutions that are overpriced to keep out the poors.

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aDyslecticCrow 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What you're talking about are specific local policy changes at specific school and equating random trends to some sort of ... "kids these days" message.

If we're talking about the US; then it's simply the very healthy and functional economic inventive of students taking out lifetime loans to pay school tuition for schools that have not actually risen in quality or format in 40 years. The more students; the more money to the school board! Lower those bar riiight down!

Lazy kids these days amiright!

	▲	datsci_est_2015 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I would echo that it’s local. I often poke fun at my SO and her sister for their absolutely trash tier quality education supplied by the Indiana public school system. I’m often flabbergasted by what they didn’t learn in primary and secondary schooling. They were able to go to decent universities, though, but it really opened my eyes to how terrible red states run their public school systems. It’s not even a flyover state thing, if you just look at Wisconsin and Minnesota. It’s uniquely red state. Also Indiana department of transportation is terrible as well.