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Don't forget teaching kids that the most important thing is to show up and do what you're told (reinforced through daily practice within a regimented system to a literally mind-numbing degree), that the people in charge will not protect them and do not have their interest in mind, and that not going with the system will result in severe consequences.

(Update: Also, I think this video might be garbage. I posted it because I thought the premise was absolutely important, but I do not think that what she is diagnosing is at all why modern schools make terrible writers. I will watch more but I may delete this.)

Okay, further update: I finished the video. IDK. I think she has very, very accurately described in detail a problem in education. I think she has completely misunderstood where it comes from. She has all this evidence, allegedly, and so maybe it's wrong for me to say the whole thing is wrong and my idea is right instead, but that's what I think.

I am leaving it up because I think that she's right and powerful about the problem, and maybe what she talks about is some part of the reason for the problem, but I think it's probably a very very small part.