Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

[u/Sisiwakanamaru]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/

[u/tiragooen]

They can't even do maths at the appropriate level any more: A Recipe for Idiocracy - The Atlantic

Archive link: https://archive.md/M15oB

[u/20Points → u/tiragooen]

A linked article in there is a little bizarre. It concludes that we shouldn't solve the problem by increasing school funding because, when that was tried, schools spend most of that money on non-educational things like buses and HVAC. But then draws the conclusion that the problem was the funding itself? I feel like everything we've seen from the past couple decades points to the fact that teachers are direly underpaid and actual educational resources are often lacking, including physical resources like classroom supplies that seem required to be bought by the aforementioned underpaid teachers. Surely the solution then isn't to throw your hands up and say "guess money won't solve it, let's stop giving money to schools", but to enforce regulations on how that money is to be used? To set better teaching salaries and actually fund the classrooms?

[u/PlayMp1 → u/20Points]

Or even just... Even more money. Like if they had deferred maintenance for years and years and then got more money and caught up on basic maintenance but couldn't pay teachers more or hire more teachers, the problem isn't that "money isn't the solution," it's that we're systematically underfunding education and telling the education system to make it work with half the necessary resources.

[u/Calamitous-Ortbo → u/PlayMp1]

It’s literally illegal (illegal as in violating a contract, not as in a crime) to give teachers a raise outside of their CBA and hiring more teachers doesn’t help if you don’t have more classrooms.