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Youngian wrote: ↑Mon Jul 17, 2023 6:14 pm Heartbreaking isn’t it?
Philip Marlow wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:37 am I'm guessing the Kennedy name isn't going to help this bright lad into the White House.Is this some laborious joke set up for a piss poor US stand up? “We’re going to have to eat bagels on a rickshaw to avoid the virus.”
Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 7:17 amIs this some laborious joke set up for a piss poor US stand up? “We’re going to have to eat bagels on a rickshaw to avoid the virus.”Jr's been a stalwart anti-vaxxer for a while, but this particular level of wackiness is a step up from his usual rhetoric on the subject.
And meanwhile, the idea that teaching kids less math will create “equity” has spread far beyond the Golden State. The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts recently removed algebra and all advanced math from its junior high schools, on similar “equity” grounds.
It is difficult to find words to describe how bad this idea is without descending into abject rudeness. The idea that offering children fewer educational resources through the public school system will help the poor kids catch up with rich ones, or help the Black kids catch up with the White and Asian ones, is unsupported by any available evidence of which I am aware. More fundamentally, though, it runs counter to the whole reason that public schools exist in the first place.
The idea behind universal public education is that all children — or almost all, making allowance for those with severe learning disabilities — are fundamentally educable. It is the idea that there is some set of subjects — reading, writing, basic mathematics, etc. — that essentially all children can learn, if sufficient resources are invested in teaching them.
Before public education — one of the key crusades of the original Progressive movement — only private actors invested resources in educating children. Families taught their kids skills, rich families hired tutors, companies trained their workers, churches provided some classes, etc. But it was a threadbare, uneven patchwork. Worse, it was highly unequal — if you weren’t born to a family with lots of time and/or money to spare, you didn’t get nearly as much education. This led to inequality throughout society, as well as the preservation of intergenerational wealth. Furthermore, it wasted much of society’s productive potential, because the unlucky kids weren’t learning as many useful skills as they could have been.
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