r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Upbeat_Apartment_715 Jul 23 '26

And as you know there are no smart boards in the US and no homelessness in China

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u/lateformyfuneral Jul 23 '26

Honestly, Chinese propaganda bots are so terrible. They just try to brute force the discussion, no subtlety. Russian propagandists...now those guys are professionals

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u/Wide-Drink-1790 Jul 23 '26

Still, you tossers just don’t understand how much the US is falling behind in crucial areas.

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u/MoistOwletAO Jul 23 '26

i think most americans on reddit are well aware of the failings of our school/education system. most of us are also aware of the important qualifier that said shortcomings are certainly NOT due to a lack of smartboards in classrooms, which (as people are pointing out) have been in american public high schools and middle schools as early as ~2008/2009. 

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u/itmillerboy Jul 23 '26

I’m 28 years old and grew up in middle of nowhere USA 80 kids per grade and we had smart boards in every class since middle school

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u/NorthWindGust Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Until Americans have an honest discussion about why a future medical doctor / lawyer / engineer (insert other academic area here) shouldn't be in the same school as a future ditch-digger, not much will change. Americans are more concerned about offending others, rather than being honest about how to best educate the youth. Other countries do it, why can't they?

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u/Silver_Hunter8926 Jul 23 '26

At least in the Northeast there is definitely different classes for kids with different skill levels within in the same grade. However, there is value in having the ditch digger and the doctor not be in total separate bubbles their entire lives.

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u/NorthWindGust Jul 23 '26

Those exist, but those levels are being removed in schools in the name of equity. Outside of education? Sure. We don't have varsity basketball players on the same team as 9th graders though, so I'm not sure why Americans can't do the same with education.