@Wen@mastodon.scot To be fair, the Republicans have spent my entire lifetime, and I'm old, dismantling the education system because they're still mad about desegregation. One neighbor is a teacher, and another is a librarian, and the literacy rates they report are staggeringly bad. Some kids are hitting high school still functionally illiterate. And it is by design. Ignorant people are significantly easier to control.