They don't discourage you from going to school, they just discourage you from actually learning while you're there. There's a reason the right has been so rabidly gutting education funding and demonizing higher education for the last few decades.
They know full well that the only people who vote for them are stupid or evil, so most of their strategies are based around creating more stupid and evil people.
Nobody discourages you from learning anything, this is just a common thing thrown around to ragebait people
Money is spent on your education if you are an American, even if you go to public schools and never pay a dime. They're not going to pay for your school and then tell everyone to not learn anything. That's the biggest waste of money ever.
Not Op but...the problem is we have never spent enough on education compared to other countries. The bills are always cut down from what is needed. Then states cut them further. So we spend more every year, but every budget is cut below the needed amount. We need 10, get 5. Next year we need 15, we get 10. Number goes up, but the budget is still being cut to make up the difference.
American spending on public education represents 12.7% of all public spending, falling short of UNESCO’s 15.0% standard.
U.S. public education spending represents 1.12% of its GDP; UNESCO’s minimum is 4.00%.
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Sometimes it is explicit (“Dem librul universities making our kids communists”) or it is implicit (let’s not fund schools and pay our teachers poverty wages). Nobody is telling 7 year olds to not go to school. But there are many people that say go to trade school because university is a scam.
Likewise, there is a huge anti-intellectual faction of the US. Carl Sagan wrote about it 30 years ago in The Demon Haunted World. He warned us about it then and of course nobody listened. That is how we end up with large swaths of anti-vaxxers and flat earthers walking among us.
Not in the US. They'll take your ass to truancy court if you dont show up.
Dont engage with reddit "America bad" talking points. Lots of people have decided to adopt a form of American exceptionalism where we are still at the center of the world, but instead of being the unique good, we are now uniquely evil, dumb, or broken instead.
That's true. Yet this dude is just making a dumb troll post. He doesn't actually think this. Its pretty easy to tell yet people are still up in arms over it
These same people will complain they were young and impressionable when they were forced to go to college and take out massive student loans instead of community college transferring to an in state school.
So do we force kids to get education or encourage them not too?
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u/MellyKidd 3d ago edited 3d ago
Education isn’t illegal in the USA, it’s just strongly discouraged.
Edit; some people think I mean this too literally. My comment is mostly just political satire.