The left discovers the great dumbing down of schools

Thursday, October 01, 2026

To her credit, Hannah-Jones admitted she hadn't focused sufficiently on her daughter's mastery of math. But if she was truly surprised by the chasm between grades and subject knowledge, then she hasn't been reading the news. Anyone paying attention to recent education-related headlines knows that education bureaucrats across the nation are burying evidence of a widespread and unpleasant truth: Public high schools are churning out barely literate, almost innumerate graduates.

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Public high schools are churning out barely literate, almost innumerate graduates.

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

It's a cultural thing. The same culture that public high schools exist within. The same culture MAGA prefers and elevates.

Future vaxx truthers, everyone.

Short lives and dumb ones.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-01 03:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I am sure disbanding the department of education can only improve education

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-01 04:04 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I'm a borderline Hall of Fame troll, Alexandrite. I easily elicit multiple responses with a single post. And it doesn't take any effort.
#27 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-06 05:42 PM

#3 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-10-01 04:04 PM | Reply

Public high schools are churning out barely literate, almost innumerate graduates.
POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Years of republican policies are paying off.

"Education is for snobs!"
- Rick Santorum

"I love the poorly educated!"
- Donald Trump

Meanwhile both of Trump's department of Education hires, Betsy DeVos and Linda McMahon, have defunded and destroyed public education.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-01 04:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Ballwasher the fucking idiot

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-01 06:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- Public high schools are churning out barely literate, almost innumerate graduates.

Who are almost Guaranteed to become Republican voters.

The Republican Dumbing Down of America Program is werking really well!

The Dumbing Down of America has been a 50 year project of the Republican Party that started with, "The tax cuts for the wealthy will Trickle Down!"...

... and continued with Planned Recessions, underfunded edumacation, expensive bad healthcare, Money as Speech, Corporate Personhood, and legalized political bribery and Forever Wars.

So, they've werked long and hard for the resulting Trump voters.

Bellboy is competing with 1Nut for the coveted rwing Miss Obtusity Prize.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-01 08:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Is ol' stinkerbell complaining or bragging?

#7 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-10-01 09:32 PM | Reply

@#7 ... Is ol' stinkerbell complaining or bragging? ...

Good question.

Around here, it seems to be the GOP politicians who want to constantly reduce the funding for public schools and, instead, try to use public funds to finance their entry-limited private schools.

And, don't get me started on the dollars-per-student spent on public schools in wealthy towns vs the same stat in the less wealthy towns.

I mean, just go to Wilton, CT (a wealthy town here in CT) and look at their high school on US RT7. It looks more like a college campus than a high school.

Wilton, Connecticut
en.wikipedia.org

... The median income for a household in the town was $197,428, and the median income for a family was $217,415. Males had a median income of $190,000 versus $71,611 for females. ...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-01 09:47 PM | Reply

The left and Democrats dominate public education. Read the article. Hell, read HannahJones' op ed. You all built this, support it and own it.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-10-02 12:47 AM | Reply

"The left and Democrats dominate public education"

While the right and Republicans CONTROL public education.

Hence the devolution.

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-02 12:57 AM | Reply

@#9 ... Read the article. ...

It's an OpEd, not a news article. Written by an apparent social media wannabe.

Even the link your current trolling alias provides flags it as "opinion."

Do try harder.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-02 12:58 AM | Reply

POSTED BY BELLRINGER

You really are a moron.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-02 12:58 AM | Reply

"The left and Democrats dominate public education"

While the right and Republicans CONTROL public education.

Hence the devolution.

#13 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-02 01:02 AM | Reply

Sorry for the double...

#14 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-02 01:02 AM | Reply

"You all built this, support it and own it."

Yep.

Meanwhile, you SCREECH when someone points out what you built, support, and own.

#15 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-02 01:04 AM | Reply

@#10 ... While the right and Republicans CONTROL public education. ...

So, you've also noticed that the GOP drum-beating reduction of money for public schools may have had an effect upon the outcome for students graduating from those schools.

For me, if I were assigned the task of improving public schools, the first thing i would do would be to equalize the money spent upon the schooling of each student.

From what I see here in Connecticut, the difference between the wealthy towns and the non-wealthy towns is amazing.

#16 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-02 01:05 AM | Reply

... Anyone paying attention to recent education-related headlines knows that education bureaucrats across the nation are burying evidence of a widespread and unpleasant truth ...

Please provide examples of those recent education-related headlines.

thx.

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-02 01:08 AM | Reply

@#12 ... You really are a moron. ...

imo, even worse than that.

It is just a reply-craving troll.

Of course, then the question may become, why does that current trolling alias seem to crave replies to its posted phlegm?

That one, I cannot answer.

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-02 01:14 AM | Reply

" While the right and Republicans CONTROL public education.

Hence the devolution.

#13 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2026-10-02 01:02 AM | FLAG: "

That is some epic and disingenuous trolling)g right there.

At the state level Republicans have been pushing things 8e school choice something Dems ferociously oppose.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-10-02 01:31 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

It is just a reply-craving troll

Spot on.

There was a time they'd brag about how their stupidity resulted in multiple responses. As if that were something to be proud of.

I guess any attention is good when you're lonely and miserable and desperately seeking human interaction.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-10-02 01:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#13 ... Hence the devolution. ...

Exactly.

Republicans want to defund public education in favor of providing themselves discounts to attend their private schools.

So, instead of Republicans wanting to improve the problems they may see in public schools, all Republicans seem to want to do is make public schools even worse by defunding them.

It just fits into the uber-wealthy wanting to continue to have a whole class of people who are unable to do anything by work for the uber-wealthy.

#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-02 02:07 AM | Reply

"school choice"

Math proves that's where regular taxpayers subsidize the rich.

Not the only place, of course ...

#22 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-02 02:09 AM | Reply