Education Is Even Dumber Than the Kids

Schools across the US are facing budget woes, needing at least of $250 Million to fill funding gaps for the next school year.

Read – https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/enrollment-decline-hits-school-funding-triggers-cuts.html

Let’s not ignore the parents or the kids had nothing to do with spending temporary COVID-19 funds, the school admin did. And the teachers who got paid knowing damn well they didn’t know how to do their jobs, only for the tax payers to see these schools build an infrastructure on 2 years worth of money for 10 year requirement in itself is dumb.

The public trusted the schools knew how to manage a budget but they sold ability to an ignorant public like it was guaranteed, because adults now days are too busy dealing with their own shit to probably focus on school oversight.

Real talk most of these schools were already going through budget crisis way before COVID, Trump and fuel shortages. And schools became a gateway drug for scammers looking to gain potlical access and money, without real community pushback. Some people didn’t even know who was on their local school boards collecting a paycheck.

Relying Too Much On Antiquated Metrics

When schools now have to fight for funding, reading scores, math, stuff like that is weaponized to not provide adequate funding for many city schools. So a poor school is too smart, no funding.

There has been a legitimate demographic bias towards counter races in low representation districts. But same racially managed systems also created this trust me bro culture, with even ultra conservative white schools ripping off Christian parents and then blaming DEI. Similar to Black schools stealing from Black families and the blame illegals. Like illegals is why your lunch lady is making $350k a year. Gtfoh.

As schools have to sorta hunger game against charter schools and internal culture schools, whether it’s religious, stem, underserved, ESL and corporate chains, pending on where that school is, the adults not the kids start deciding if improvement is feasible or even necessary.

Bad Data Is Good For Business

By using data based on salaries/social related incentives, this data generated can allow school adults to score big if they make the issue true. This means winning funding based on helping poor data happen, all while punishing kids that don’t meet the criteria, pushing them into further behavioral pits. Essentially, schools basing a child’s value on data is harsh and would be fine if it quickly highlights problems that lead to solutions but, lowkey a lot of school data is usually not accurate and even practices regional bias.

When schools produce BS like reading scores with “0%,” it becomes alarming when parents and tax payers hear this, making the public think what have we’ve been paying if the kids can’t at least read.

The schools will state needing all these resources to fake fix the problem, year after year. And when those budgets are challenged, the admin blames the city, the city blames the state, the state blames the feds. Inside the school, the teachers blame the kids, the kids blame the school, the parents blame the teachers, and the admin blames the parents.

Meanwhile third party contractors and school admin get rich from phony leadership training and collective data bias, all blindly funding a leaderless system. This leaves the kids basically being abandoned by all the adults around them. And abandonment can turn any child into a terrorist. So good luck with that.

There’s Money In Dumb

A lot of special ed categorization easily pours money at the problem without the kids being formally diagnosed. There hasn’t been a strong review of the age or the year of a technology-fueled child’s learning journey that quickly highlights, okay this kid is gonna need help moving forward. Due to incentives there is actual neglect of the school to use that dumbing of the kid to get more money. The more broken the kid is, the more money they get. This leaves kids at the mercy of many (uncertified) teachers who then confused their own limited training with the kids ability to learn as the reason there’s no progress.

Once being dumb brought on extra money for the kids family and the school, parents are then motivated to collect an extra $800+; teachers are encouraged to label kids as special Ed to pad their school’s budgets. The irony, all that extra money then goes to adult “leadership” training and third party researchers that produce bias data to pad expenses at the smearing of a kid actually trying to simply learn. So the kid is purposely sabotaged and all the taxpayer gets is “it’s Parents and Chromebooks fault”!

Kids Can Read, Just Not On Paper

To hear parents in city schools whine about Chromebook as the reason the kids “can’t read” is dumb. Chromebooks themselves aren’t Simon machines where the only engagement requires pressing a yellow light, blue light, and red light button. To use a Chromebook, tiktok and many other tech items (games too), you have to read know what your doing for full digital engagement.

So technically the kids can read but the slowness of books and the snails pace of school learning doesn’t help, especially for kids in the city dealing with generational weed head dna. Education right now is slow as shit. And the current culture places kids on a constant stimulus, then forcing them in a strait jacket for 6 hours a day. Meanwhile adults have low digital literacy, can’t see the talent. This counters kids who find their registered intelligence in technology.

That complexity of technology adds a layer of legitimate support for learning disabilities but, since the 90s technology was always an equalizer for kids who simply learn differently due to cognitive limitations.

“Inner city” kids already have fewer employment opportunities, and instead of building on the exceptional technology ability of many city kids, the knowledge that can actually get them somewhere is smeared as useless by low tech minded adults, seeing the one thing saving them as hurting their education.

This notion of technology hurting them is even harder to sell when kids who otherwise have a blend of yearly miseducation and environmental factors that disable their cognitive abilities, then make good money in content creation.

Sad to say, if a kid suffers years of educational neglect and they can’t really participate in getting an academic dissertation, what options to they really have?

We have to ask, is it wrong if they grow up to make $250k a year on onlyfans or build a following on ratchet shit that produces a socially cringe, yet legal income?” I mean their tax dollars eventually pay that same school district that put them in that position.

The Solution Is To Lean In On Tech

You gotta work with what you got. And if years of digitally illiterate educators placed our city budget in this mess, we gotta fix this before education becomes a a money pit. So let’s look at what does work. We got kids who can basically film an Oscar movie on a Chromebook (just triggered a parent I bet). We got technology and AI moving even faster than the adults can process.

So, aside from forcing teachers to finally get technology pedogogy, change the tests. Yep, change the test to get a real assessment and determine can they just not read and write on paper or if their social media engagement can be quantifiable enough to say, yes they can read.

Build on that and then change the curriculum to meet where they are. Kids are basically 20 years ahead of the teachers, so find a baseline for teaching kids that are more gifted than simply “special ed.” Yeah there is this natural anger for teachers to consider the kids nowadays are more gifted than special and that they simply need to change the approach.

There is also is a relucantancy (especially Black teachers what’s up with that), to classify city kids that aren’t suffering from physical disabilities (down syndrome, cerebral palsy, etc) as gifted. Its hard for adults to believe that the kids aren’t bad they’re bored and potentially accelerated.

They don’t need jobs they need something even more complex and relatable towards real world needs. Remove monetization of kids online or at least bring strong consequences when fuck shit is done in hopes of clout, and bring back computer labs to give their brains focused learning rather than constant bombarded of tech.

So it’s strange to say lean into tech, but limit it’s access but, the labs can bring focused learning on tech. Labs are social and it forces live engagement for something usually done alone. Burn off all that crazy from over stimulation and translate it in the lab. Use the classroom as the library and resource to engage with technology. Flip it. Go to class to get the assignment, use the labs and technology to do the work.