Education should be completely privatized; it is far too important to give government any part of it. From Hannah Frankman Hood at thedailyeconomy.org:
Even with record-high per-student spending, the broken status quo has left 1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate. Schools refuse to reform.
A nineteen-year-old college student is suing her former high school for negligence because she graduated despite being unable to read or write.
The student, Aleysha Ortiz, graduated from Hartford Public Schools in the spring of 2024 with honors. She earned a scholarship to attend the University of Connecticut, where she’s studying public policy. But while she was in high school, she had to use speech-to-text apps to help her read and write essays, and despite years of advocating for support for her literacy struggles, her school never addressed them.
Her story is shocking, but unfortunately, it isn’t isolated. At 24 Illinois public schools, not a single student can read at grade level. Nationwide, 54 percent of the American adult population reads at or below a sixth grade level. Put a different way: only 46 percent of American adults gained even a middle-school level mastery of literacy — let alone high school or collegiate levels.
In a first-world country where we spend nearly $16,000 per student per year to educate our children, that’s a horrifying statistic.
Literacy is supposed to be the bedrock of a free and liberally educated society. As the Washington Post’s motto so aptly reminds us, “democracy dies in darkness.”
Illiteracy is a form of darkness, and an illiterate populace is not one equipped to handle the demands of a world filled with forms and papers and words, let alone be the voting citizens of a democratic society.
How will we build the High Speed Rail in the AI workers utopia with comrades who can’t read or write?
Honk, honk, goes the engine or locomotive.
I love the cursive memes stating this the unreadable code to be used in the sporky times.