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I feel like "useless" is too kind... plenty of them are actively harmful and dangerous.

Although there's a few bright spots, the stories I hear about the "No Child Left Behind" generation are terrifying.

Standardized testing has destroyed everything and the current education secretary is going to burn what's left of the system to the ground in the name of profit.

The dream of an electorate too stupid and uneducated to grasp even a basic consensus reality is going to be arriving in a hurry.

Heh, I just started my kid in a private school.

Schools are more similar to prisons than infrastructure.