Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

xylogx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I live in the US where teachers are paid a pittance. Shows our values as a society. They’re educating the next generations, but that doesn’t make number go up right this second, so they are compensated accordingly.

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  • evol@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In California most of my teachers were making 6 figures in my rural town, the problem is that kids don’t care about learning, their parents especially do not care at all.

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  • Alphonsus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Exactly, it’s a sad reflection of priorities. The work they do shapes the future, yet the pay doesn’t reflect that impact at all.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s more than just lack of effort here though, it’s systematic pollution they are allowing into our food and water with abandon.

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  • gigajhand@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    into education too, into everything they can actually

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• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, the systemic tearing down of public education definitely had an effect as well.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Teachers are a cost-center

  Technology is a profit-center

  What are you, some kind of socialist? Your system will never work. We’ll all run out of money!

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