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- world@quokk.au
- worldnews@lemmy.ml
The French government plans to increase the number of third-level student places and make €4 billion ($4.5 billion) available for high-school renovations as it tries to end nationwide protests that have turned violent in recent weeks.
High-school students began to demonstrate in mid-September to denounce overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and outdated buildings. Their blockades and marches morphed into nationwide cost of living protests earlier this month that drew more than half a million people and descended into riots, arson and looting.
I don’t think this is gonna change anything. Long school days feel like jail. All the learning to not have a future because AI can do the stuff you learn at school better. Despite all that automation prices rise, retirement age rises wages stagnate. Politicians all over the world are missing to share the benefits of automating with their voters. Companies keep it all. Life should become easier due to this but it will be harder instead.
Concretely the pupils see AI can solve their homework in 5s. Why learn all that rubbish then? It demotivates.
So you actually understand the concepts. Thats why you learn it. We had spreadsheets and calculators but still learned math. So you can be a functioning human