On one hand I'm admittedly slightly terrified about what happens when our population escapes the treadmill of Taylorism, which school is a primary promoter of.

On one hand I'm admittedly slightly terrified about what happens when our population escapes the treadmill of Taylorism, which school is a primary promoter of. Do the assigned work, keep things steaming along according to the rubric: it's anodyne as hell but also regardable as basic discipline to, and even the rebels need some of that tempering. And it's scary to see such a fall. We seem less competent. Reciprocally there's some - not vast but some - challenge that I deeply welcome. The blood of tyrant flows these days; those who kept us tied to the machines, who have been the expressed way things are, aren't getting such tight controls. Some regression in scores is acceptable if youth are finding authentic their own ways to engage, are more deeply pursuing their own value systems, rather than that which is imposed. It's entirely unclear what degrees of constructivist building our own values is at play here. Far too soon to tell. But education has maintained the course for a long long time now, has kept their captive audience enthralled to a certain achievement based system. These are the first signs of wavering, the very first. In many many many decades of belief in education. I have no desire to see education (as we've seen it) thrown away, but I hope it can adapt & respond & better serve it's people, as they are less cohesive & less managed a people. It will also be deeply interesting to see how things go as time marches on, if this is blip is isolated or if it ripples recur.