How long does the US education bubble have?

[IronBarrelBro]

Maybe you don't think there's a bubble at all, but all sorts of schooling is basically held up by metaphorical toothpicks and the need for free day care if we're talking about public school. Even back when I was in HS teachers would regularly not care if students blatantly cheated right in front of them. They'd read out the lesson and hand out papers, but their real job was really just to watch the kids. One time I even asked a teacher after class why none of them care anymore about any of the learning, and he basically told me that parents get uppity when their kids fail, so teachers just gave up and do the bare minimum now.

A much younger relative told me that studying and tests don't matter, that teachers will actually read out the answers and let kids change them before the tests are turned in. Even in college I've had papers I did last minute that flat out didn't meet every requirement, but somehow got more than a 90%. It's very obvious to me that a lot of this is a big sham. Obviously this kind of thing doesn't happen absolutely everywhere, but me and friends from different states have all had similar experiences at one point or another. Maybe the more prestigious places like some private schools and the more elite colleges actually challenge people and aren't afraid to fail you, but from what I can tell, everything else is just going forward because a lot will go wrong if they stop the machine, as dysfunctional as it is.

Is this just going to go on forever? Any idea what the signs will be if it's close to popping?(maybe what I described already is) What do you think the consequences will be if the bubble finally does pop? If any of you have similar stories of schools just absolutely not caring I'd like to hear them too.

 

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Any idea what the signs will be if it's close to popping?

Critical infrastructure is already failing, and we can't go back to the moon because we "destroyed the technology" aka the Saturn V was built using manufacturing techniques that were not passed down. We can't keep planes flying anymore without them falling apart. Electrical grid engineers are on jewtube talking about how they are the last people who understand how to maintain the equipment, they don't have apprentices and interns and once they retire there's not going to be anybody who knows how to operate or fix anything. We're already in it, but it's not so much a pop as a deflating dirigible.