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- We're 20+ years into a gun crisis in schools, such that "school shootings" are so common as to no longer be major news and are now just a punchline to a joke.

- We're 20+ years into a gun crisis in schools, such that "school shootings" are so common as to no longer be major news and are now just a punchline to a joke. No politician in the nation has put forward any serious plan to address this issue, and the kids are hyper aware of this. - There are no real mental health services for students, especially those with extreme mental health concerns. (and even if you as a child, or your own children, don't need those services, you'll be lumped in with other kids who desperately do need it) - Schools themselves are chronically mismanaged, generally due to funding issues. (some still don't have Air Conditioning, despite rampant global warming. Some still don't have any ventilation, despite being on year-three of a global pandemic, etc) - Teachers have some of the lowest wages of any white-collar profession. (average pay here is $55k/yr). Teachers are so underpaid, they often can't even afford basic housing in the school districts within which they teach. - Because of the last point, some of the teachers still willing to tolerate all-of-the-above are not necessarily folks who should be teaching. Some districts are heavily using/abusing substitute teachers as in-fill, which reduces the quality (and staff wages) even further. (google: Florida Teacher Shortage, and their plans to use unqualified military staff, as some kind of insane stop-gap plan) - School boards have become weaponized, such that right-wing-extremists are taking control of them via poorly-noticed elections, in an attempt to destroy public schooling and make life miserable for all teachers and students. (google: Ottawa Impact or Moms for Liberty, as some examples) - Right-wing extremists have demonized teaching as a profession, actively operate and fund hate campaigns against all public schooling, (and libraries, apparently), and they openly issue death threats or terrorism threats to any teacher who is kind to students. (see "Libs Of TikTok" and related) It is absolutely no shocker that kids who aren't forced to go, wouldn't want to go. Why would any reasonable person want to deal with all of this?

DrThunder 3y ago
No. Schools have MORE than enough money, they're just run by morons that don't spend it wisely and instead bolster admin pay and waste it on stupid seminars by grifters like Ibram Kendi. https://www.newsweek.com/public-schools-have-spent-21m-diversity-inclusion-programs-since-george-floyds-death-1672323 https://www.newsweek.com/public-schools-have-spent-21m-diver... Just because a social media account posted what they were doing and people got justifiably angry about it doesn't mean it's "right wing extremism". You seem to be having a bit of cognitive dissonance going on. You're pointing out that public schools are a failure while simultaneously saying anyone questioning how they're run is obviously a "right wing extremist". How about placing the blame on the actual people running the schools instead of the people who are telling you why they suck.
- maxsilver 3y ago
  > Schools have more than enough money, they're just run by morons... I agree with you on that? I never advocated for raising taxes, I said "Schools themselves are chronically mismanaged" and that "teachers are underpaid" and they poorly fund their services. > while simultaneously saying anyone questioning how they're run is obviously a "right wing extremist" No, I'm saying the people who are running for school boards so they can openly hate all minorities and setup christian-nationalist views are "right wing extremists" -- https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4086179-six-reasons-why-moms-for-liberty-is-an-extremist-organization/ https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4086179-six-reasons-wh... These people are not "questioning how they are run" in good faith. They're trying to make schools hell for children to experience (and, frankly, their efforts are working)
  - DrThunder 3y ago
    >"No, I'm saying the people who are running for school boards so they can openly hate all minorities and setup christian-nationalist views are "right wing extremists" Except this isn't happening. This is gaslighting to paint anyone who questions how schools are pushing racial curriculum as far right extremists. It's always the same argument with the left. Everything you disagree with is not racist. Lastly, the idea that if you don't like schools telling kids that if they're a certain color they're victims incapable of ever having a good life, or they're literal slave owning devils that are given an unfair advantage.... well that's pure racist garbage. It's not "hateful" to want that to go away.
chung8123 3y ago
The opinion piece doesn't claim any of these items are issues for students being absent. This feels like you are trying to distract from the issue with a different agenda.
- maxsilver 3y ago
  > The opinion piece doesn't claim any of these items are issues for students being absent. I'm aware. The opinion piece is missing a lot of the major issues schools and kids are facing right now, major issues that play into why students aren't showing up for school. Hence, my comment above.

DrThunder 3y ago

No. Schools have MORE than enough money, they're just run by morons that don't spend it wisely and instead bolster admin pay and waste it on stupid seminars by grifters like Ibram Kendi. https://www.newsweek.com/public-schools-have-spent-21m-diversity-inclusion-programs-since-george-floyds-death-1672323 https://www.newsweek.com/public-schools-have-spent-21m-diver... Just because a social media account posted what they were doing and people got justifiably angry about it doesn't mean it's "right wing extremism". You seem to be having a bit of cognitive dissonance going on. You're pointing out that public schools are a failure while simultaneously saying anyone questioning how they're run is obviously a "right wing extremist". How about placing the blame on the actual people running the schools instead of the people who are telling you why they suck.

maxsilver 3y ago
> Schools have more than enough money, they're just run by morons... I agree with you on that? I never advocated for raising taxes, I said "Schools themselves are chronically mismanaged" and that "teachers are underpaid" and they poorly fund their services. > while simultaneously saying anyone questioning how they're run is obviously a "right wing extremist" No, I'm saying the people who are running for school boards so they can openly hate all minorities and setup christian-nationalist views are "right wing extremists" -- https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4086179-six-reasons-why-moms-for-liberty-is-an-extremist-organization/ https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4086179-six-reasons-wh... These people are not "questioning how they are run" in good faith. They're trying to make schools hell for children to experience (and, frankly, their efforts are working)
- DrThunder 3y ago
  >"No, I'm saying the people who are running for school boards so they can openly hate all minorities and setup christian-nationalist views are "right wing extremists" Except this isn't happening. This is gaslighting to paint anyone who questions how schools are pushing racial curriculum as far right extremists. It's always the same argument with the left. Everything you disagree with is not racist. Lastly, the idea that if you don't like schools telling kids that if they're a certain color they're victims incapable of ever having a good life, or they're literal slave owning devils that are given an unfair advantage.... well that's pure racist garbage. It's not "hateful" to want that to go away.

chung8123 3y ago

The opinion piece doesn't claim any of these items are issues for students being absent. This feels like you are trying to distract from the issue with a different agenda.

maxsilver 3y ago
> The opinion piece doesn't claim any of these items are issues for students being absent. I'm aware. The opinion piece is missing a lot of the major issues schools and kids are facing right now, major issues that play into why students aren't showing up for school. Hence, my comment above.