Damn, this is the first time I have seen something that isn't the opposite issue of overcrowded and underfunded schools. Well the underfunded part still remains at any rate.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
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Turn them in community centers.
Rework how how education is done, by mixing programming you'd find in a community center and a regular school.
People complain that education is not currently working, here is your chance to re-envision it. Build large spaces with welding/3dpriners/car repair. Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens.
Musk bought Twitter for $50B, in comparison the price tag for repairing any of these schools seems like half a peanut in cost. There is money.
People complain that education is not currently working, here is your chance to re-envision it. Build large spaces with welding/3dpriners/car repair.
Isn't that already part of the public education formula? Vo-tech (Vocational Technical)/JVS/trade schools have been parts of many public high school systems for more than 50 years. Looks like Chicago already has them.
Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens.
Your suggesting having unvetted adults casually mixing with teenagers in school on a daily basis? That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
So you decided to just insert words into OP's post and then respond to that instead of what they actually said. Please fuck all the way off back to Twitter with that bullshit.
For fuck's sake.
So you decided to just insert words into OP’s post
Which words did I insert?
unvetted
casually
daily
Those are applicable to this line from the original poster: "Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens."
We're talking about schools here. Are you suggesting that public school wouldn't happen daily?
People hired by schools that are going to be in contact with children go through background checks for their past employment and criminal histories. The last thing a school would want would be to hire a child sex offender to be in unsupervised contact with the underage students. Are you suggesting that the school that now has these "mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens" is going to perform full vetting and background checks on the adult students?
Those are applicable to this line from the original poster
No, they aren't. You just read those in based on nothing.
The only thing I am suggesting is that you're just making shit up up that isn't there, stop trying to move the goalposts.
Tell me, from your interpretation please, of what “Have mixed classes not based on age, with adults and teens" would look like.
- Who are the "adults" that are in "mixed classes" that are "not based on age"?
- Where do these adults come from?
- How often do these "mixed classes" occur?
Turn them in community centers.
Apparently, a big part of the problem is that entrenched interests, including the Teachers' Union, are resisting any attempts to shut down or convert these smaller schools.
Musk bought Twitter for $50B, in comparison the price tag for repairing any of these schools seems like half a peanut in cost. There is money.
The top 0.1% of the US population controls the vast majority of US wealth, and they use it exclusively for pursuing more wealth for themselves. Improving education does not make the 0.1% or even the significantly less wealthy but still filthy stinking rich 1% more money so they will never pay for it. This is why the US needs 200%+ taxes on the 1% not on imports, not that our bought and paid for government would ever do such a thing.
The communities actually paying for these things couldn't afford $50M never mind something insane like $50B. So no, there is not money, at least not without solving our completely out of control wealth inequality, but that's an entirely different problem.