A DUNCE MUST BE CAPABLE OF SHAME TO BE SHAMED.  But that's just another social construction.

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Californians are still 49ers, but not in a gold rush way.  But they will be properly attuned to the past evils committed, and the contributions of historically marginalized populations.

Sorry, guys, but a child who cannot read, and knows little math and science, is not going to get a lot out of such “social studies,” and is certainly never going to make history.

Does anyone really still believe that politicians will ever produce an education system that serves our children?

Politicians can, but it might take years of lives wasted before they catch on that the living standards of the middle class require self-discipline, and before they recognize that we call out dunces as a first step out of dunce-dom.