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I really don't blame the schools, the teachers, the funding. I blame the cultural shift where the schools are treated as daycare facilities and students aren't properly punished for failure or motivated for success. Hell, a lot of the time it almost sounds like a point of pride on the part of students to refuse to learn.

Perhaps anything beyond the 8th grade should be voluntary college prep, and students are admitted into it on a competitive basis, and kicked out rather swiftly if they prove a waste of resources. Everyone else can do vocational training until they reach the age of majority, rather than forcing them to learn academics they are already opposed to learning.

A large portion of our culture and entertainment does celebrate stupidity.

I blame the parents almost fully, teachers and school systems much less so. In our local school system we have kids that succeed wildly and those that fail abysmally. Difference between the students success... the parents themselves and to a lesser extent the students. Yeah there are bad teachers but they don't make or break a students success as a general rule.

what caused teaching to suddenly nose dive?

riddle me that, batman.

Oh, its not the students, really. Its the f**k parents.