Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.

I can’t help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.

Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright yea

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    having strong reading comprehension and the ability to synthesize/critique based off of that comprehension

    I see plenty of long winded heavily overanalyzed power posters on Reddit. But when they treat the CIA Factbook as gospel and denounce Seymour Hersh as Fake News…

    That’s not a comprehension issue. It’s a trust issue.