but comparing my dad's text books to my own that I had.

Hispanics speak Spanish to me, Jews assume I'm one of them

his cover in one chapter what new ones take half a book to get through.

@Catboi it's called Critical Theory from the Frankfurt School.

Yeah new books assume everyone is stupid.

Marxists been playing the long game

We have dumbed down the education system, homework is useless, the educational standards and textbook racket do nothing but siphon money away from taxpayers and parents...

I can't say for how things are these days but I always found school frustratingly slow

It's like the MIC the EIC?

That's because it is if you're even slightly above average

I can teach math, science, and English, but I'd have to either find a tutor or seriously brush up on history.

That's one thing I was glab about going to private schools

had to take IQ tests to get in

^

I went to a country high school with the focus there being Agriculture

Everyone there was smarter. A lof of the complaints my fiends had about Public school didn't happen atm y school

There were no really dumb kids at my school.

When everyone got it, the teacher just moved on.

Homework is still retarded

and we still had to use the state prescribed curriculum to some degree which was dumb.

We had magnet program. I was just hick townie

All my best classes the teachers made their own text books

Seems like a lot of kids doing school online now

That's a mixed bag

All the problems are even worse with pacing online since they're still putting kids in "classes" AFAIK

Depends on the program I think but yeah, they carry over a lot of legacy assumptions

The ones that are free and run by my state are like that.

otherwise it's a homeschool program and the parents have to pay usually.

You get what you pay for.

Schools would vastly improve if they just placed kids based on some sort of testing.

Yep

Vocational tracks

not even talking about that.

Just talking about not having some person in the class that's so far behind and so much less capable the teacher slows everything down for that person.

It's the natural outcome of a tiered schooling system.

IMO we should be letting kids specialize their curriculum based on their interests and abilities as soon as middle school.

and I don't know how I feel about a Realschule, Hauptschule and Gymnasium type system...

In some ways how we have things now gives more people potential to change and get back in school if they want to.

Our system still offers more opportunity for people, and I'd like to keep that aspect of it.

I don't like the hard separation line between school and adult life, personally.

"hard separation" Don't know what you mean.