I can't even participate in these discussions. They don't even understand the fundamentals like RNA transcription or even larger concepts like herd immunity, and yet they think they have a leg to stand on. It's like arguing with flat earthers: The sheer amount of education you'd have to give them is insane. And even if you got them there, they'd just convince themselves that you're trying to pull some kind of wool over their eyes.

https://www.sciencealert.com/f...

But it's cute how they try to be scientific about it and then trip over the whole impiricism part.

If they didn't make schools like prisons, how would they be preparing children for the modern workplace? The resemblance is not accidental. Much of the structure of contemporary schooling originates in what historians call the factory-model education system, developed in the nineteenth century to produce punctual, compliant workers for industrial economies. The daily schedule of bells, queues, silent compliance, and permission slips is an elegant rehearsal for adulthood. The workforce positively demands graduates who have mastered the sacred arts of waiting quietly, asking to use the restroom, and performing repetitive tasks under surveillance. How else will they thrive in open-plan offices?

Of course, a few idealists complain that future workplaces demand creativity, autonomy, and adaptability. The Center for American Progress prattles on about students needing a "broad range of skills and abilities," as though the modern manager prefers innovation to punctual obedience. If schools were not structured like prisons, how would they possibly ready students for a labour market where surveillance software tracks keystrokes, badge systems record movement, and annual reviews determine whether one's metaphorical sentence is extended? Fortunately, most K-12 schools heroically resist such destabilising tendencies. As the Discovery Institute points out, schools have admirably retained their industrial-era structure. Proof of their commitment to preparing children for the only thing that truly matters: sitting down and doing as they're told!

I rather liked driving the tractor once I was old enough to reach the pedals. Taking care of the chickens did me no harm at all. There was still time for running around the countryside.

My daughter despised "no child gets ahead". She'd come home ranting about how one or two kids were holding back everyone else. Fortunately in her junior year she went into the running start program and we are close enough to a community college so she could start on her AA.

This is in a rural and very Red county that does its best to hold off the idiocy from the state capitol.

The same trend as the article mentions is evident here too, enrollment dropping while population is rising. The "pandemic" showed that the kids could do the schoolwork in 3 hours, so what were they doing the rest of the day?

Too many schools are underfunded and too many teachers are overwhelmed with large class sizes, behavioral and disciplinary challenges, lack of administrative support and in-class assistance, and disinterested, unhelpful parents (who are working 2-3 jobs, often at night, and are themselves exhausted and burned out)

The US already pays more per student than just about any other country on the planet for education and we do not get the results.

No, the problem isn't money......

I think a lot of parents are home schooling to get their kids out of the classrooms filled with green/blue dyed hair teachers who are more concerned with indoctrination than education.

The pandemic opened A LOT of peoples' collective eyes as to what was really going on in classrooms that parents didn't have a clue about.

Encouragement of trans....grade school kids exposed to information on anal sex and how a boy can give a blow job were the most egregious examples....but just sets values that didn't set with what parents in general in the US want to impart to their kids.

the US population is generally middle of the road and you screeching green haired instructor is pushing stuff from the far left in many cases.

Parent's saw this and are putting a stop to it.

Frankly I can't blame them.

> AI Should NOT have any protections
You're absolutely right.

and NEEDS Restrictions put on it for Everyone's rights.
You're absolutely wrong.

and see what happens.

Reminder: the ISS flies at about 400km altitude. This is to stay out of the space debris and to stay below the radiation belts for human habitation.

My banana isn't firm enough. Let me know when there's an LLM that gives me what I want. Until then I'll make do with my own uncensored systems.

You poor TDS sufferer. A post about how science advanced by admitting new information and you go off ranting about Trump and Christians. Have you considered that America isn't the country for you? We are a Christian nation and our constitution s fit for no other. Leave us. You do not belong here. We desire neither your arms nor your counsel. Go now and lick the hand that feeds ye, and may history forget ye were our countrymen.

..WOW...

Someone woke up on the dystopian side of the bed this morning.....

Despite how badly as you're lusting after me, no, that wasn't me you were rolling around in, that was rsilvergun's sty, right after he gave you some of his windowpane.

That's what apple said about theirs, then Tim Cook and ArchieBunker became furious after learning that nobody wanted it, so they made it opt-out.

You forgot to install itunes music store first