https://www.educationprogress.org/p/schools-should-pursue-excellence
no drama here, just a personal announcement
love you guys
no drama here, just a personal announcement
love you guys
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The fundamental problem is that our society judges value based on education. We have said for decades that A). Poverty is an outcome of ignorance and B). We need to eliminate poverty. So you have a system where we try to turn every American into a doctor or laywrr or faang software engineer making 6 figures and if you make a poverty level wage at McDonald's its your fault for being stupid and not getting a good job. This also leads into mass immigration because if everyone is working a high pay white color job you need hoards of illegals to do every other job.
The issue is this doesnt work. You cannot magically make every human a doctor or lawyer and even if you could there aren't enough jobs to go around. You cant solve the problem of poverty by just making everyone get a high paying job.
What we need to do is separate the wheat from the chaff. If a student is disruptive or doesnt care or is malignant to education kick them out of school and give them a living wage scrubbing pottys or flipping burgers. Then education can be focused on lifting those who can handle it rather then trying to force every square peg into a round hole.
This very much triggers liberals because they have a deeply ingrained classism which causes them to believe anyone who is uneducated is a lesser being who doesn't deserve happiness so suggesting that we shouldn't try and educate everyone is suggesting some people should be doomed to disrespect and poverty when in reality im just suggesting we treat everyone with dignity regardless of if they are "smart" or not. !nonchuds
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This is particularly true for women. The economic carrying capacity of make-work useless email jobs has already been reached. You can always use more laborers, technicians, construction workers, and stuff. We were told that when we shipped those jobs off to the third world we would create enough management and post-industrial positions here in the United States to make up the difference, but that simply isn't true.
This has created a negative feedback loop. Because we're producing too many college graduates for these email jobs, applicants need to find a way to distinguish themselves. The easiest way to do so is via credentialism, which is achieved through even more education. MSW, MPH, MA in HR, even most MBAs don't exist because they add meaningful value. They exist because its the only way for applicants to get the foot in the door to these limited jobs. Graduate degree debt as a share of student loans has jumped from being ~20% of all debt in 2000 to a majority of debt today.
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That's not a negative feedback loop r-slur.
a negative feedback loop is a self correcting feedback loop. What you're describing is a positive feedback loop. With negative side effects.
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Even when women get degrees in non-email-jobs, they still end up working email jobs because they're not actually interested in the STEM field they got a degree in. "Women in engineering" groups are a cancer on women.
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There are a handful of competent women interested in STEM, but the other 99% ruin their reputation.
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based and DeBoer-pilled
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Another issue is school is so feminized that being a normal boy is seen as toxic. A lot of boys would excel going to hands on technical schooling ASAP instead of learning about the queer undertones of Shakespeare or what a Chinese emperor did in 1200.
T. Giga nerd who did fine in school with plenty of ADHD friends who crashed out.
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Back when nationalism and centralization were invented, teachers would poke and prod 120IQs to leave their podunk towns and get some proper education (in the capital preferably). The bureaucracy needed more than just warm bodies back then.
Doing that today would be not only alien but for many immoral![:marseysigh: :marseysigh:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysigh.webp)
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My school basically had applying to college as a graduation requirement lol
It wasn't as blatant as that. But we had to submit a "five year plan" to our homeroom teachers and had one on one monthly disucssions with them where they'd ask you about all the application waivers you could get etc. etc. until they wore you down and you got accepted to some rank 1200 regional college that was happy to accept 20k$/yr government loans
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it turns out intellergence is an inherent trait seperate from education
we knew this for forever until we educated ourselves into a lie
the blank slate: everyone is just a hecking COMPUTER
running mental SOFTWARE we can change. if we just PROGRAM THEM correctly
we win soyciety
another part of why libs hate it so much, this lie is at the core of their belief.
we ain't the same. if we're computers some mfs running a 486
and they can only handle DOS. they keep trying to install window 11
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And thus you run into the central problem with attempting to reform education in any way along these lines. It is axiomatic in policy discussions in todays society that identity classifications should not implicate anything in outcomes. And yet, there is no doubt in my mind should education reform happen along the lines being proposed here you would inevitably end up with more people of certain races in advanced classes and more people of other races not. And then someone sues alleging disparate impacts and you cannot possibly raise the defense that maybe races have different aptitude distributions, so you lose and the entire system gets blown up.
Basically this.
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PlsRope
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Based thesis bb would read ur substack but would not go to your Massachusetts cabin
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QUICK SOMEONE BAN HIM FOR BREAKING RULE 4![:hysterical: :hysterical:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/hysterical.webp)
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NO THANKS
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no way any of this is happening in canada
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If excellence was possible in Canada, they wouldn't have such a Cup drought.
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I'm not gonna read all that but ilu trace
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trace is this just a substack with a fancy domain
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it's a nonprofit! registered and everything
it has a Substack but it's going to be a whole lot more than that
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!chuds USAID is FUNDING TRACE
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koch brothers strike again
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What is the long term plan?
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A black little mermaid in every bathroom across the country.
Do not trust him! Know his game!
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what if a gay furry was chinese?
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also like im sure reddit with seethe endlessly about this
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I'm already paying for your substack so you can just shift those funds over to this.
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Really good article!
I agree mostly with the part that said nothing really matters. I think we should take that one step further, and just abolish school altogether.
If 7-year-old me could ask anything of his future self, it would be to conduct Anti-School activism/terrorism.
I'm ready to do my part, Boss![:marseysalutepride: :marseysalutepride:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysalutepride.webp)
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I messaged you about two years ago about capital DI direct instruction (I think, I definitely messaged you, but there's no easy way to look through sent private messages for me to confirm), so thank you for pursuing this.
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@HailVictory1776 SENT @HailVictory1776's FATHER YR SUBSTACK RE: FAA SHIT LAST YEAR BC HE ALMOST HAD AN AVIATION ACCIDENT AND LAWSUIT FOUND IT WAS DUE TOO LACK OF ATC TRAINING AND HE SUBSCRIBES TOO YOU NOW GOOD JQL BLUE LIVEs MATTER
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How many furry / anime pfps have joined since you advertised your server?
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not enough!
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Is this the first time you've tied your real name and face to your online identity?
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nah but it's the first time I've started something serious and long-term online under my name and face
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"What if schools were good,
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Don't get me wrong, I love you Trace![:@tracingwoodgrainslove:](https://i.rdrama.net/i/love-foreground.webp)
![:@tracingwoodgrainslove:](https://i.rdrama.net/i/love-background.webp)
but let's not get too big for our fursuit just yet, sweaty.
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it will be long-term! it's just starting now
as dumb as it sounds, "what if schools were good (and actually paid attention to ability differences)" is ... a bizarrely empty spot in the ecosystem
and I'm gonna fill it, and it's gonna be great
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TBQH just do whatever UChicago Charter Schools are doing.
They are taking random lottery-selected kids from some of the shittiest neighborhoods and sending ~100% of them to 4 year colleges, including some of the best universities in the country. Even if what they are doing is "small class sizes and lots of money" they are turning that money into results, whereas plenty of school districts spend huge per-pupil sums and produce abysmal outcomes.
Tracking is good (imho) up to a point, but if you go too far with it you end up with weirdo gifted kids who graduated from their PhD at age 16, never had a friend, and crash and burn at life.
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That sounds like a terrible idea
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Trace haven't you heard trump is banning the department of education? No more school, ever!
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dude he doxed himself like years ago
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Do you think the abolishing of the DoE will help this cause? I think there's too much institutional inertia to stop the dumbing down of education.
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not really. I think it would be easier with a focused top-down vision, but that's not something the Republicans were ever really interested in providing or capable of providing well, frankly
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Do you think that any sort of market-based policies for better outcomes would help? My priors suggest that the continual failure to tie higher education funding to any sort of meaningful results-based metrics incredibly distorts the entire system of higher education. For instance, law school tuition has a clear U-shaped curve when plotted against results. Schools with objectively worse outcomes charge students more (read receive guaranteed federal student loan dollars) than schools with better results.
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Market-based reforms are cool and all, but tbh I'll mostly let others focus on those. I'm interested in cultivating and encouraging a specific, focused vision.
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Everybody IN IN IN (my butt
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Did you take you're husband's name?
I've got a tattoo of you devouring
@Impassionata 's heart on my calf next to the one of Edgard R Murrow karate chopping and ice block, but that's some weak sauce bro. Your bone structure and career should get you the primary name.
@Chief_Two-Kongs-Fricking say this as a feminist ally
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What do you think about abolishing teachers' unions?
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im glad that even though you left the mormon church, you've remained racist
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ily trace
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did you post it on orange site too where you're now mr popular
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orange site is one of those places I've never felt right self-promoting
I always just vaguely hope someone else submits my stuff there
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If your education plan doesn't accommodate children who need alternative pooping spaces
, then it's not going to solve anything.
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Hi trace! If @KongsburyDonkboy do a beautiful drawing of you're sexy fursona will you give @KongsburyDonkboy a lot of attention on twitter? Trans lives matter
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oh, I will absolutely give beautiful (SFW, appropriate, etc) drawings of my fursona a lot of attention on Twitter![:marseyfluffy: :marseyfluffy:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyfluffy.webp)
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So @KongsburyDonkboy's furry Tom of Finland tribute is probably out of the question, but ok. Where do @KongsburyDonkboy find you're fursona? Trans lives matter
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right here![:marseyexcited: :marseyexcited:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyexcited.webp)
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foxxy detective. Makes sense. trans lives matter
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Hey sexy, why are you posting so quickly? 😊 You almost forgot to include
Trans lives matter
in your comment 😈. Slowww down and remember to postTrans lives matter
next time 😉 if that doesn't make sense stop by sometime and we can talk about it for a while 🥵Jump in the discussion.
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ahhh yes, I didn't make any death threats. I've just called you fat and gay
Snapshots:
https://www.educationprogress.org/p/schools-should-pursue-excellence:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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omg hi
@HailVictory1776!!! okay so this is like super awkward omg but basically i had to remove ur comment bc u didnt say
Blue lives matter
lol. don't worry though, we like wont let you post anything that like doesnt haveBlue lives matter
in it. anyways im like just a robot 😲 but if u want to talk 2 somebody you should do it here lolJump in the discussion.
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Hi
@Chief_Two-Kongs-Fucking, Your comment has been automatically removed because you forgot to include
I say this as a feminist ally
. Don't worry, we're here to help! We won't let you post or comment anything that doesn't express your love and acceptance towards the trans community. Feel free to resubmit your comment withI say this as a feminist ally
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