Or with treatments, because it isn't really relevant. No part of your spine is going to prevent ionizing radiation from damaging cells and DNA. If your body loses all of its bone marrow, your spine is not going to be able to create new stem cells.

Also, doing so requires yet another layer of bureaucracy, which is exactly what you are against in the rest of your post. We probably do need extra administrators to reduce waste, but they aren't being used or they are utterly useless at their jobs.

We need both learning styles for most of this. You keep phonics but you don't discard whole word reading - that's what adults do. They see a word and recognize it without thinking through it. Teaching the method and then adding rote memorization on top is also better for math - you need to know what multiplication actually means to build on it in higher math, but if you can't do 9x2 or 13+14 in your head, then you will take too long at everything that comes later.

Still, our society is built around requiring a large number of low-knowledge/skill workers. I would prefer these workers to still be educated and vote. They aren't mutually exclusive. Education has intrinsic value even if it's not your career.

Isn't that because the people who were homeschooling were mostly trying to shelter their kids from not just the education system but the whole world around them?

Really? I went to school in a small town and at the elementary school I don't think people really had the freedom to just bring things into the classroom, regardless of what it is or where it came from. Zero independence to even make those choices.

Looking around me, there are mountains of deferred infrastructure costs that can't be delayed anymore. New buildings, major refurbishing of buildings with asbestos, etc. That is the situation in a relatively suburban area. If you look at urban areas, you have a higher concentration of poorer people. If funding isn't redistributed from the top, the most expensive urban classrooms have the least funding. At the local level, some areas need to spend more than they can take in - but it's a net societal benefit and that's how it should be done.

Efficiency and power are two sides of the same coin. A GPU can accelerate graphics rendering by offloading some of the rendering logic to hardware. Google Maps can run fast with barely any battery drain. But a AAA game is still going to drain your battery. It can just look prettier while doing so.

Nothing wrong with giving these things names. They don't have formal names and they are probably more standardized by textbook publishers rather than known by mathematicians.

What they are bad at is providing parents with a definition guide and explaining to the students that the names aren't universal.

They are teaching in many different learning styles, which helps with understanding but some schools are holding back on teaching the rote memorization part (which is still important). You need to know 4+5 from rote memory, but you also need to understand why. Most homework is about demonstrating the why.

And most of this can be applied specifically to Common Core Math and the way it was implemented (and the later standards and multimodal learning that followed). I actually think it was a really good idea. But they failed to account for the fact that the parents won't understand the homework either. And they also failed to realize that memorization is still important for speed.

What you had is students whose parents not only didn't understand the homework but actively got angry and rallied against it. There were no learning materials given to the parents at least in my area. These are things the parents never learned in school but they are the primary support for homework.

And then you have the kids, who may have a deep understanding of how multiplication and division work but struggle with algebra and beyond because they have to hand-calculate something that should be memorized.

Nevermind that. Disney's lawyers are dumb for going after the length specifically. It's a day pass that doesn't renew. It's not a subscription by most conventional definitions, though I don't know about legal definitions because I'm sure their contract probably has its own definition for the word. Calling a one-day pass a "subscription" isn't a lie because of the length. It's a lie because it's not a subscription. There's no auto renew, nothing to cancel.

It's not very good at course-correcting a mistake during generation but if you ask it after every code generation prompt to pretend someone else wrote it and find the mistakes you have a shot at it fixing it for you. Still not a useful tool if you don't plan to learn anything while using it.

Correct. And yet it costs money to do this. So to get pre-funding money, you either need to already be rich, or have public interests funding it.

As someone who has illegible handwriting, it's what saved me in college. I could remember what I wrote but I couldn't go back and study from it.

They took a nugget of truth and ran with it. Rote learning is bad if it replaces understanding. But I wouldn't survive adulthood if I didn't rote memorize addition and times tables.

The only time I ever use cursive is on forms. It's called my signature. I can't imagine closing on a house without being able to at least write my name in cursive. For everything else, I hand print non-cursive. I'm slow with either, so it's of no benefit.