Re: Re: Kids don't like school?
  By: Gamgee to Mike Powell on Tue Aug 10 2021 10:21 pm

 > The "leadership" out that way are all idiots.  Stupid idiots.
 > 

I don't think they are idiots. I think they know very wekll what they are
doing.

They have been raping education into nothingness in Spain since the 80s or so.
Even college education was more tough than it used to be. I was lucky enough to
be educated in an old-school college which was ran by dinosaurs who used
education programs from the 70s - which means the programs were outdated but at
least were the real thing.

If you are a politician, you don't care for the long-term sustainability of the
country. You only need to be cool enough in the eyes of your voters in order to
get reelected. If you want to purchase parent's votes, an easy way to do it is
to tell them their kids are going to have it easy to get to college if you are
in office. Most parents want their kids to eventually hit high level education
so they will roll happily with it.

Also, today's parents are pussies and don't want their kids to be stressed by
mennial things such as exams and the like and love blaming their kid's failures
on somebody else. If their children are failing exams, it must be the system's
fault rather than the children's. This makes it easy for politicians to sell
them "You are right, we will adjust our system to reasonable standards if you
vote me."

Somebody I know maintains that they are actively trying to provide suboptimal
education so people ends up ignorant and stupid, and thus manipulable.

Long term, this means the country ends up cracking under its own weight, but by
the time that happens, the politicians responsible will be long gone to their
Peru mansions, enjoying Martinis and hookers while their motherland burns.


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