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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like this devaluation of education is because women have really excelled at it. Men can’t handle it so they push to discredit it.[/quote]

Also because women have other options.  50+ years ago the smartest women almost all became teachers because there weren't a lot of other options.  I'm not saying that current teachers aren't smart, or downgrading their skills --- but it used to be that schools got a ton of high quality, underpaid labor because women didn't have a lot of other options.  Now, teachers can just quit and go get another job.  And lots of them do.

Also because now almost all kids actually go to school through HS.  Before WW2, most kids did not go to HS -- you were lucky if you could stay in school through 8th grade to get your basic R's, before going to work on the farm or in a factory.  There were lots of immigrant kids that never really did get their three R's together.  When my dad was in the army in the 1950s, his drill sergeant only had a third grade education -- he was a farm kid that had signed up after Pearl Harbor.  The late 20th century was sort of unique in that we had very low immigration for a few decades, and a really solid middle class.  But even then we had a lot of HS drop-outs -- because of the weedout effect, education looked more successful because unsuccessful kids just dropped out of the system.  Now we have demographics more like the early 20th century (high immigration, lots of income/wealth disparity) but we expect all kids to succeed in education.

Ironically, it was the Republicans -- Bush with his No Child Left Behind -- that really bloated Ed.[/quote]

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