This ain’t new…
“No child left behind” meant kids didn’t have to learn anything because they couldnt/wouldn’t be held back.
No matter what happens, you get advanced to the next grade, and after 12 years they hand you a meaningless piece of paper.
Which is a part that doesn’t get touched on enough, it probably had a large effect on “degree inflation” because it made a highschool diploma mean absolutely nothing, even if you did well. Which lead to everyone going to college and all the issues with that.
Like, we definitely need to stop more damage from being done.
I just want to fix the shit Republicans broke 20 some years ago too.
Literally gave a speech earlier tonight about the damage that this, combined with losing the Fairness Doctrine, did to America.
This is inaccurate. The no-college degree bloc broke roughly 50/50 by party in 2020, with a heavy variance by region (blue states biased their no-degree voters towards Dems / red states biased their no-degree voters towards the GOP).
The biggest indicator of how your state will vote is
how much your state relies on fossil fuel exports for its state-level GDP
The “low-education Trump voter” isn’t voting Trump because of education, they’re voting Trump because they’re earning high salaries doing oilfield and related work. This creates a natural sympathy towards Republican mega-donors, who can then tap into additional social institutions - sports talk radio, mega-churches, universities and business centers - with that explosion of surplus revenue.
Fossil Fuels industries have bankrolled the Republican Party since the 1950s. Its why Republicans love a good war in the Middle East and what drives a bunch of our alliances/conflicts in Latin America, Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the South Pacific.
Does he mean the poor that are educated or people who have a lack of education?
Lack of education
