School is a formative experience in our lives, and we learn a lot more than just the topics we are taught. These funny educational memes celebrate some of the commonalities we’ve all experienced while learning about the world and how to find our way in it. They’ve been gathered up by this awesome Instagram account and we’ve shared our favorites with you here.
There are plenty of memes about the facts we learned about the world, but that’s not all. Many others deal with the social trials and triumphs that we experience as we grow at our schools and with the frustration of learning in systems that may not always be capable of giving each pupil the individual attention they deserve.
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The memeseducational account account has 45,000 followers on Instagram and over 650,000 on Facebook, so they’ve clearly touched on a topic that resonates with many current and former students and pupils. Setting aside homeschooling, which is an often legitimate but very different education path, both private and public schooling options share many problematic and positive commonalities, their differences notwithstanding.
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It’s clear that the education system is facing challenges, especially in the US. In the US, school test grades have reached their lowest levels in decades. Students are struggling to completely grasp some of the topics being placed before them and experts are trying to figure out why.
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One significant impact on the quality of education in the United States has been the COVID pandemic lockdown. Interruptions manifested themselves differently around the world depending on lockdown restrictions and compensation techniques, but in many places, both the quality and quantity of education dropped dramatically. Children had to adjust to learning from home, reduced class time, distractions at home, and other challenges.
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The COVID pandemic was not the only reason for the drop in the US, however. By all accounts, the downturn in testing grades in the US has gone on for at least a few years prior, hinting at deeper underlying problems in the education system. Similar COVID-related downturns were identified in several EU countries, but their magnitude varied due to vastly different lockdown approaches and, in some cases, available resources.
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