Education / Teaching thread

The truth is our societal failures are exasperating our educational failures. If you are traumatized because there is gun violence in your neighborhood, you will not be able to learn. If you are hungry, you will not be able to learn. If you have to help parent your younger siblings you will not be able to learn.

Some will discount me but those who have studied ACEs know the truth. These children growing up with acute traumatic experiences have higher results of negative outcomes. The more of these experiences, the greater the chances of negative outcomes.

If we want to fix our education, we need to provide children a safe neighborhood, proper healthcare, and social safety nets that ensure they have food and don’t go hungry.


But that sounds too much like socialism so we refuse to do that.