Standardized testing, for example. When I was in school the only ones to worry about were the SAT/ACT and you didn't do those until late in high school. Now there's like a hundred of them and kids are doing them all the time.

But that and the other problems with schools don't come from the schools themselves. They come from outside forces - testing companies looking to make money from government contracts, politicians looking for some number that they can make go up so they can say they fixed the schools, etc.

The real fix is to give teachers control over their own damn profession. They're the ones doing the work and who know the kids, just give them what they need and let them cook. No not every teacher is good but relaxing everything and making it more flexible has got to be an improvement over what we're doing now, turning up the pressure and then wondering why so many kids have anxiety issues.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

It’s almost like they wanted school to run like a factory, the product of the education pipeline becoming a cog in the machine, stratified by both wealth and ability.