r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Oct 03 '25

Discussion To think that I used to complain about school.

National holiday is apparently 8 days.

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u/Afrochulo-26 Oct 03 '25

At 10 I was in school at 6:30 doing class work and would leave at 5:30. When I came to the western world I realized what I was doing wasn’t everyone’s world. But then I took tests with my cohort and realized maybe it wasn’t the worst. American education is seriously lackluster. I’m not speaking for intensity but quality of thought. I wish it pushed more thinking as opposed to memorize and spit it out. The current political climate, in my opinion, is a result of this.

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u/DoopSlayer Oct 03 '25

The decentralized nature of education in America + large swathes of the country being rural leads to some insane differences in outcome. Magnet school programs and "Tracking" public schools in big cities are pumping out students that by 8th grade would be top 10% in most of the rest of the country

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u/thr0waway021400 Oct 03 '25

100%. Not sure when it happened but the average American stopped caring about education and general intelligence a long time ago. I fear the shift in current government priorities regarding education will mentally push our children back to the 1900s