Its so funny how we have such shitty schools, shitty education and that's all relatively new. Everyone's answer is all this special attention, special teaching techniques, more money etc etc etc.... yet kids never got that in the past. You were told to sit down, shut up and do your work and if you got out of line you got beat in front of the class. You were expected to do well or you were an asshole and any adult within a 50 mile radius would let you know that.
Why is it that suddenly today, education is this insanely complex issue, when for centuries, it has always been extremely simple? Sit down, shut up, listen, take notes, do your homework and don't be an asshole and don't even think about doing shitty in school.
We've lowered our expectations, lowered standards and started getting politically correct and are always saying "it's not their fault"... and they suffer for it. That's all that's really changed.
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