"I have a theory as to why primary and secondary education in the the USA has become garbage.
There was a time in America where the smartest, most capable women really could not expect to hold jobs in high ranking positions in industry, or government, or medicine or the law.
So really intelligent, gifted women became primary or secondary school teachers. This worked well because teaching at that level also implicitly acknowledged motherhood, and those women could impart their knowledge to school children while being successful homemakers.
Thus, for much of the 20th Century, America's children were trained by some of the nation's best and brightest brains.
Today, however, really intelligent women have unlimited opportunities in many professions, and they choose the more lucrative paths like medicine or the law.
Thus, in many cases (not all), today's primary and secondary school teachers are the intellectual dregs of society, drawn to the profession because it's all they can do and because it enables them to brainwash generations with the Karen/Marxist activism that inevitably accompanies the low IQ, socially aware brain.
The only fix I can see to this is to pay teachers a great deal more money but also establish meaningful competency/IQ tests as a gating item for the job.
That, plus charter schools and all other programs that provide meaningful school choice to parents."
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