The current administration has outright said they want people to remain uneducated. They’re easier to misinform and control. Trust me there are plenty of teachers out there (myself included) who are horrified and doing what we can to help. But there’s only so much you can do when your administration fires you for treating kids with respect and your salary is barely enough to pay bills

14

25% of high school graduates are functionally illiterate and probably even more are entirely unequipped to handle university-level math and science courses. This is a crisis and for some reason everyone would rather talk about how old kids should be when they learn that gay people exist

5