LOL I went to an ultra conservative private Baptist Christian school. There were barely any choices for classes, basically split between “stupid” kids and “smart” kids. I missed out on a lot of opportunities during my childhood. The main things I was qualified for after graduating were going to Bible college, Liberty University, or retail work.
hate to tell you this, but for me private Catholic school was way worse than public school would’ve been.
My high school focused on football and discipline. my friends went to arts and sciences magnet schools, engaged their passions, and found like-minded friends.
Subtle propaganda for diverting public school funds to segregated private schools through vouchers.
Thereby further weakening unionized teachers, and the middle class as a whole.
Fuck Linda McMahon and Betsy DeVos
Is this some 'murica thing I’m too German to get?
It’s Fox News viewer humor.
i’m surprised the kid isn’t black.
Combines the conservative hatred of secular public education with the entitled boomer hatred of the young.
American public schools are pretty bad. Most people who can afford to send their kids to private school do- and most people can’t afford private school.
There has been an active, deliberate drive since Reagan (in California, since Governor Reagan) by the right to make public eduation worse, to raise an unskilled underclass with no upward mobility and no capacity for critical thinking. In most places local property taxes fund public schools so rich areas have more school funding than poor areas. This is by design, to resegregate and increase inequality.
“Teaching to the test” the problem this comic directly references, was the result of making them pass metrics or lose already limited funding.
The way this comic calls out public education suggests the artist is one of the heartless fascist Republican boomers who created the problem, smirking to an audience of the same with no self-awareness. “Haha, stupid kid. Shoulda gone to private school. Have you tried just… not being poor, you son of a lazy bum?”
Not even subtle, just a garbage cash grab by people who want to divert public school funding into private hands.
It took me a second because, confusingly, our “public schools” are what much of the world would simply call private schools. These are the super posh schools like Eton or Harrow.
So is it different at Eton and Harrow ?
In the UK the two main categories for schools are private schools and state schools.
“Public schools” are, unintuitively, a subset of private schools, typically the very old very posh ones.
The term is archaic, but refers to the fact that they weren’t run by the state or by the church - i.e. they were run by the public. Of course, this refers to a board of governors made of the super-wealthy, not the average man on the street.
Eton and Harrow are particularly famed for churning out people who end up as Prime Ministers and other high-ranking officials. It’s not just the money, but the connections you build there as well. They’re also famed for churning out borderline psychopaths who literally think the rest of the world is there to cater to their comfortable lifestyles.
