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Comment the flat curve (Score 1) 179

"Students' access to and achievement in computer science must not be predictable on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, language, religion, sexual orientation, cultural affiliation, or special needs."

How does anyone imagine that is achievable, except by not marking ... performance?

Comment Re:other people's money (Score 1) 413

"some of them will see what is being done to them"

Don't you feel guilty about abusing the english language this way, by using passive voice to insinuate an affirmative harmful action by someone? And yet, in reality, all we're talking about is resistance to being made to give our stuff to someone else. It's not a harmful action - it's at the very most neglectful inaction, and even that only if you presume some sort of inherent moral claim on other people's labours.

Comment Re:other people's money (Score 1) 413

If the likelihood of a positive return was high, people would undertake personal debts for it.

"in general pay for themselves"

Note that even this happy-hypothetical-scenario is all from the point of view of the government treasury. From the point of view of individual net-taxpayers, there is no pretence of "return" on their "investment".

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