California public school enrollment sees big drops

Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by rayiner on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:55AM (#35467136)

American schools are fine. They are not underfunded: we spend the OECD average on K-12 as a percentage of GDP, and since we are so rich it ends up on the high end in absolute terms. Our class sizes are right around the OECD average, smaller than Germany or France: http://oecdedutoday.com/how-does-class-size-vary-around-the-....

The problem is that American kids are bad—poorly behaved and uninterested in education.

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Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by rhacker on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:52AM (#35482974)

I am 43, definitely not my experience when I was growing up in CA. When did the kids go from "good - well behaved" to "bad -poorly behaved"? Honest question - I really don't know any kids.

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Re:California public school enrollment sees big drops by rythmshifter on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:22PM (#35483408)

Around the time cell phones and social media became prevalent.

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