Hello, Ward Dossche.
On 11/9/20 11:46 PM you wrote:

 WD> Bjorn,
 BF>> But, watching various Karen/Kevin video clips on Youtube, it's 
 BF>> easy to see that it's all about the US educational system. After 
 BF>> all, how can you brainwash 70 million people unless they are all 
 BF>> totally uneducated? As in "no college for you mate, back to the 
 BF>> coal mines for you!"
 WD> I think you're dangerously close to the truth.

Yes he is.  The public education system in the US sucks ass.

In Texas, for example, they have this statewide test requirement at different
grade levels. One of those Basic Skills type of things.

That in itself isn't bad.  You should have minimum standards of education
levels to proceed ahead.

The problem is, that far too many schools are only teaching to pass that test.

So you have an entire generation that isn't getting a decent education.
 
 WD> A more and more larger portion of the US youth in the Red states 
 WD> is home-schooled, most belong to religious groups such as the LDS 
 WD> and other groups and as such become a state inside the state. They 
 WD> have not had the opportunity to learn to think for themselves but 
 WD> were trained to do as their religious leaders and/or parents. 
 WD> Examples exist in the Z1-portion of the nodelist.

While that is certainly true in some cases, the public school systems do little
better. And many parents fail their children as well, leaving all of the
child's education to the education system.

However, homeschooling isn't limited to parents and/or churches.

One of my granddaughters is being homeschooled.  That's not simply her mother
teaching her.  She is enrolled in an online school and has to log onto it for
regular lessons with an actual teacher.

In her case, it's a health issue. Even before this whole Covid thing.  She has
severe asthma, bad enough that it has hospitalized her on several occasions. 
Regular school failed her because of attendance.  With the homeschool, she can
still attend her classes online while taking her treatments for her asthma,
which just isn't possible in public school.
 
 WD> (2:292/854)

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