[tdb7893]

Has there always been a graveyard of dead comments at the end of posts here? I've been surprised at having seen them on a couple posts recently.

I know it's an election year in the US so my experience is that there's more nonsense than normal in online spaces but it's surprising here.

[lolinder]

What I'm seeing here is pretty typical of what I normally see with showdead turned on when on a topic that is vaguely political in nature (anything with Musk in the headline counts).

[Loughla]

Most political posts attract that sort of nonsense on this site.

Any post with musk as well.

And for some reason education posts?

[ink_13]

There is a quite vocal handful of commenters who loathe the public education system (although perhaps not for the reasons one might initially expect)

[ziml77]

The reason I would expect is that they think the teachers are showing their kids explicit sexual content, encouraging them to be transgender, and telling them about how they should hate America and white people. Is that not accurate?

[defrost]

With heavy and ironic stress on "they think" ...

[itbeho]

Just my take: Some parents are having growing concerns about the quality of basic education (reading, math, history) that their kids are receiving. Apparently questioning the effectiveness of how their tax dollars are spent makes them a homophobe and a racist. Oh, and probably "weird" too.

[Blot2882]

This is one of those posts that just tries to throw in as many rage baiting concepts at once in to maximize angry engagement.

Bait aside, nobody calls you homophobic for asking good faith questions about how the schools budget is spent. But it would be absurd to imply the 12 hours a year kids are taught about sexuality is somehow derailing the entire curriculum. When talking about revamping education, only people that have fully drank Kool aid would think "it's because all of that money is used to turn my kids gay".

[Something1234]

I have never seen these comments around. What their usual arguments?

[tetromino_]

> for some reason education posts

Well, the reason, if I understand the critics' arguments correctly, is that compulsory public education was instituted a century ago (a) quickly, without serious policy discussion or any experimental evidence and (b) with the goal of solving a very specific social problem that existed a hundred years ago (poor families migrating en masse from the countryside to cities to work in the factory, and their bored young children wandering around city streets engaging in mischief while both parents were busy instead of learning useful skills like milking cows or reading the Bible, which would have been the case back in the countryside) - and it's not quite clear whether in today's social conditions it's still worth it.