They used to be fun, they were made to look like a seaside shanty, with the wood decks and piers and ropes. Inside they had nets and treasure chests and everything was dark wood made to look like a galley on a pirate ship and you could even get a pirate hat. Now they look like a school cafeteria.

Everything you said is absolutely true and thoroughly shit. It’s just a shame that the system’s solution is to now rob them of an actual education as well.

The only thing keeping America on any kind of footing at all is that exposure to classical education largely deprograms the religious bullshit most American kids grow up with. Oh, and it actually educates them, as opposed to whatever AI assisted bullshit “workers” this is going to end up giving us.

Edit: although… religion is dying here anyway, so optimistically, maybe kids these days will need the deprogramming less and AI will improve dramatically. We could theoretically end up with a net benefit.