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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by deepsun on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:34AM (#29184764)
Well, before governments got into education, most people were happy living illiterate.
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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by FpUser on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:02AM (#29184916)
>"people were happy living illiterate"

And you of course have all encompassing stats to prove that they were happy. Government education allowed people with limited financial means to give a chance to their kids at least.

Problem is not the government education. Problem is that thanks to political games the priorities got completely fucked up. The goal should be to actually educate people not to make sure that everyone passes.

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by deepsun on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:41AM (#29186545)
I meant that people often resisted literacy, or at least didn't see any use of it.
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