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Comment Re: Better data leaks! (Score 1) 37

Comment Re:We're in the group (Score 1) 169

That's the inherent problem with classes, you have to teach 30+ students the same but they're not all capable of learning at the same pace or in the same way.

Kids who can't keep up fall behind, while those that are faster get bored and start to misbehave so they get labelled as troublemakers.
You also have the peer pressure from other kids, who will mock or even bully the top and bottom percentages of the class respectively, discouraging them from participating.

Catering to each child and teaching them at their own pace is obviously going to work best, but it doesn't scale to a school system.
If one or both parents is free to teach the kids that's great, but there are many cases where they aren't - some parents don't give a shit and are happy to send their kids off to school, many parents have to work and simply don't have time to teach the kids even if they would be willing/able to do so, and some simply don't have the ability to teach.

Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 2, Insightful) 169

...If you want these things, then you will pay for a good public education.

If you want those things, you will stay as far away from the public school system as you can manage. The public school system hampered my education and employment prospects, and nearly shut them down entirely. My mom taught me all the useful stuff at home, before the public school system started undoing it all.

I was semi-proficient in the three R's by the time I was 5. My learning pace slowed as I proceeded through the grades, and my desire to learn was all but dead by the time I graduated from High School. The public school system killed it.

My major learning interests focused around computer programming, which I had to learn completely on my own. Even the programming classes in High School (which were experimental at the time) discouraged exploring programming beyond the course's tiny box, and taught students NOTHING. I had to teach the programming teacher how to program. It was ridiculous, and was par for the public school course.

Homeschooling can hardly do any worse than public schooling.

Comment How cute. (Score 2) 23

It's adorable how they pretend that the 'well being' gap between the people who matter and the ones who don't is some sort of surprise that calls for urgent action; rather than a deliberate outcome carefully achieved.

It's the pandemic-period numbers that are the anomaly, from a period when at times downright existential issues forced people's hands(at least for white collar workers; if you are 'essential' good luck and back to dealing with the public in person); and a lot of work has been put into rectifying that period.

What's next; a comparative analysis of the labor markets of the 1950s and the 1980s that studiously pretends that it's not exactly as Milton Friedman and Neutron Jack intended?

Comment Re:Also... breathing. (Score 1) 290

The original claim was a deliberate fraud, but many people believed it, and their part in it was not a "deliberate fraud", at least not on their part. But they *did* believe it because they wanted to, in the face of contrary evidence.

Their part in it was stupidity, yes. Literally too stupid to formulate a criminal intent.

It isn't even that they gobbled it down at the time so much as they still believe it, despite extensive, conclusive evidence (including dozens of peer reviewed studies) that it was so much BS.

Comment Re:Would Pablo Escobar pass these tests? (Score 1) 240

Educational standards have been declining for a long time. It hasn't just recently gotten bad because of Corona. Both math and English instruction have declined to the point that people like you are making excuses for remedial instruction in college.

The sabotage is intentional even if those doing it don't think they are engaging in sabotage. This is painfully obvious if you interact with the K12 education system.

Parents these days have to more to repair the damage done by professionals.

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