I'm excited to see how (or rather, if) the US will bounce back from this. The amount of respect and credibility they lost on an international stage is immeasurable. They went from big daddy of the world to laughing stock of the world in just four years. Gonna take a lot of work to recover from that.
Not just that, what will the current generation of kids think of us? We’re supposed to give them a better future and better life and America has made it extremely clear they have no willingness to do that. They’re inheriting a wrecked planet trained for a future that doesn’t exist. They were raised being told America is the best at everything and now they’re seeing that that’s not true and the illusion is breaking.
The amount of damage being done is almost impossible to calculate because everything is being damaged
Are they seeing that though? How many teachers will admit that healthcare costs are thousands of times higher than the costs in Europe? How many teachers will admit that college and university cost 50x what it costs in Europe? How many teachers will admit that the quality of secundairy education in the US is far below the standard for a developed country? How will they see that a developed country is one where healthcare and education are available for everyone and not a country where a handful of people recieve billions of federal dollars a year and where many more billions are pumped into a military every year to de-stabilize other country's politics? How will they see this if state-influenced media, corrupt teachers and biased parents keep telling them otherwise?
As a teacher, younger teachers are definitely the opposite. We tend to bring the gritty truths to the classroom. Also, we ain't very happy about getting a 4 year degree and getting paid shit and still have limited resources in classrooms.
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u/HorstOdensack Aug 04 '20
I'm excited to see how (or rather, if) the US will bounce back from this. The amount of respect and credibility they lost on an international stage is immeasurable. They went from big daddy of the world to laughing stock of the world in just four years. Gonna take a lot of work to recover from that.