It's easy to place the blame on apathetic parents, children and educators but all three are mere symptoms of the fact that education as a whole isn't an important enough issue to Americans and as a result has deteriorated at all levels. We're accustomed to cases of high school students who ride the social promotion train all the way to graduation and do so lacking in basic skills but I'm sure that many of the forum members who hold hiring positions can attest to being similarly unconvinced by undergrad degree holding applicants.
I see it largely as a racket and an indoctrination apparatus that not only fails children and adults alike but ensures that they develop into Good Americans - compliant, apathetic and sporting a fair amount of debt. There really aren't any simple solutions because it isn't a simple problem but I'm starting here:
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Originally Posted by Hektore
And we as a voting body seem to have such a short memory that we can't seem to boot these worthless do nothing politicians out on their asses when they fail to accomplish even a single item on the agenda of the platform they ran on.
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