The Generation Gap on DU is real

[Sympthsical]

13. I had a thought about book banning the other day

And how we spend so much time on that cultural slapfight at present.

No one's asking if kids could read the books anyway.

Education in general just isn't discussed. Student loans get the full "Bootstraps!" treatment. Childhood education goes almost unmentioned. A recent thread about Baltimore blew up because people do not want to talk about that at all (because certain people involved in education are one of our core constituencies, I imagine).

I wonder if it's because I'm in my 40s now and have watched and supervised niece and nephew's education in the public schools in recent years. I got an eyeful of what Covid lockdowns did to education and development. I see it everyday in college. My classmates are just not where they should be. I had an hour long conversation with the head of admissions for a nursing school on Friday, and the gist of it was her going, "You should see these applications. They are . . . something."

It's not going well.

But if some right-wing bozo bans a novel in Podunk, North Dakota, we can talk about that all week long.

I keep wondering, is it just because people don't have young kids in school anymore, so they don't see just what happened to an entire generation of children during Covid?

There's just this entire silence around education. And if you bring it up, they'll blame someone. Sure, but if you look at the major cities, funding, and who's in political control . . . someone has to do some answering eventually.

Which is also probably why no attention is paid. We kind of own a lot of these problems and don't want to take accountability for it.