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A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
HENCE, schools are underfunded for that very reason. serves 2 purposes, makes future republican voters, mostly men. and people working low wages for the rest of thier life.
3 purposes. When they're inevitably the target of a mass shooter, the outrage and fear can be used and abused.
i also forget to mention, originally cannon fodder for the military.
No amount of funding can fix the curriculum, but yeah.
Edit: I guess I need to explain this for some of you, but the state will push their agenda regardless of funding. What good is a million dollars for textbooks if the textbooks don't include civil rights?
which is why the car-centric , uncritical-thinking-education-system society that is normalized is most places is ...well.... being normalized.
Keeping a large enougj percent of the population sick and stupid leads to infighting where the lower classes of people swuabble and blow up each other rather than the greedy fatcats who hold most of the planet's resources needlessly and selfishly.
A billionaire is very happy when they hear the news that a poor person being evicted from one of the homesor apartments that theyre buying probably got shot by the police if they refused to leave cause that police officer will be the one who draws ire from the public rather than the billionaire. ← THIS exact same story has happened a trillion times in history in other instances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth#/media/File:Distribution_of_wealth_globally.jpg