One of my siblings is going to school once a week, I think lockdowns definitely fried some brains.
Inevitable result of a purposeful plan to push for home schooling which basically requires the dismantling of public school institutions. All the teacher union busting and hyper fixation on which specific books some teenagers are reading and showing up to harass teachers and administrators over non-legitimate issues broadly (CRT, etc.)
It’s the cross between hyper capitalistic and hyper religious society (or rather, those who are religious are militantly religious and want to force everyone else to follow their bullshit).
The trend will continue until… well, everyone already knows.
This is in no way the fault of zoomers and younger. They are victims if anything. This is the fault of capitalism ultimately and the privatization of everything including things which SHOULD be held sacred. Education, medical care, firefighters, etc. When they get privatized (or were never public) there is no longer any incentive to retain good teachers or to even teach for teaching’s sake. It’s all itemized and commodified. Every kid is potential profit.
And of course the religious zealots have their own agenda which is just a race to who can come up with the most homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc. bullshit inevitably leading directly to some sort of Nazi-like Christo-fascism.
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This is something that definitely feels like is happening. A LOT of teachers have quit and are quitting because of Covid and its consequences. There’s no way that doesn’t lead to more privatization and home schooling where crazy chuds start raising their kids like “proud patriots” or whatever.
It’s been the plan for like 100 years, no joke.
Ever since the formation of public schooling in the US libertarians and Christians have been trying to tear it apart.
In the beginning public schooling was extremely popular due to obvious reasons. Parents generally want to see their kids get educated and do better than them in life. So the dissenting voices were ignored easily.
Since the 1960s up until today (the end of segregation- classic American moment for people to lose their shit) it’s been a simmering subject. COVID and just broadly the last decade or so seems to be pushing it into a full boil.
They’re smart enough to not openly push for abolishing education (usually) and that’s why they push for state sponsored school vouchers which shifts funding from public -> private.
Yeah seeing the death of public school in real time is fucking wild. Especially the school voucher shit, it’s like watching the 2008 economic crisis as a Marxist and saying “WHOA DO NOT DO THAT OH MY GOD” but for public education.
Didn’t CRT and Transphobia culture war shit get much worse during COVID Era too? Especially because of constant right wing propaganda being fed to people, lack of access to treats, people being mad at basic health measures like masks etc.
i think the there has been effects on children outside U.S. too. in many global south countries, covid resulted in children dropping out of school and working. im not from the U.S so i do not have any empirical evidence about it (because all the research on this is western-centric) but i do think 2020-2022 did fuck up children psychologically.
I suppose an easy analogy (in the US, but other countries have right wingers copying the US. Brazil is an easy example) is how right wingers set up the dominos for literal decades for the fall of legal abortion (overturning of Roe v Wade).
In that case Trump being elected and/or RGB (supreme court justice) not resigning in a timely manner under Obama weren’t the reason for the overturning of abortion as a right. It was just the last piece in the tower to be knocked out causing the whole thing to collapse.
I don’t disagree that covid absolutely melted brains. But it’s not JUST covid in a bubble. Covid mania (and, yes, lingering disabilities or after effects from the disease itself) was just adding accelerant to a fire that right wingers have been building for, I don’t even know. At least 60 years (guess which ruling they really hated? Yes, that’s right, Brown v Board of Ed that forced the end of segregation. So racists said “welp, I’ll pull my kids out and teach them at home!”) but the anti-public school freaks have been around since the beginning of US public schooling.
