The memeseducational account has 45,000 followers on Instagram and over 650,000 on Facebook, so they’ve clearly touched on a topic with these funny educational memes that resonate 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.

It’s clear, even judging by the sheer amount of educational memes on the topic, 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 grasp some of the topics being presented to them, and experts are trying to figure out why.

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. As you’re about to see, there are plenty of learning memes in this list that touch on the subject, too.

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.

And while all that does not sound very promising, we can always turn to educational memes and have a nice, delightful laugh at the woes of schools.