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Educational bureaucrats are compromised dregs and monsters. Their paymasters want high-value cogs. Gifted program is there to preserve the value. The rest o

Educational bureaucrats are compromised dregs and monsters. Their paymasters want high-value cogs. Gifted program is there to preserve the value. The rest of the program is there to reduce them to cogs. The result is--at best!--broken people with big bank accounts and nice offices, struggling to fill the void. In other words, home-school your kids. Give them goals outside of pleasing some salaryperson who doesn't even like them.

AnimalMuppet 7y ago
Yes, homeschool should be considered as at least an option if you care about your childrens' education. The rest of the parent comment is paranoid drivel, which I do not endorse.
- jstewartmobile 7y ago
  did you go to public school? an ordinary one?
  - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
    Some of the time. Define "ordinary". Also state why you think that's a relevant question.
    - jstewartmobile 7y ago
      "Ordinary" being the typical sort of public school most children in your city/county/etc would go to. A school that pre-selects students based on race, wealth, test scores, etc would not count as ordinary for obvious reasons. If what I wrote was drivel, it should be very easy to refute. Just labeling it as drivel seems like a cop-out--driven more by ideology than first-hand experience.
      - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
        By your definition, yes, I went to an ordinary school. My personal experience is against your position, for what it's worth. >>> Their paymasters want high-value cogs. > If what I wrote was drivel, it should be very easy to refute. You made the claim. You have the burden of proof. Show that either the educational bureaucrats have a "paymaster" that is different from the state bureaucracy, or that the higher-ups in the state bureaucracy want "high-value cogs".
        jstewartmobile 7y ago
        "educational bureaucrats" includes "state bureaucracy". They're just pocket-lining middlemen. They have no agency. The final "paymasters" would be corporations, small businesses, and their PR agents in the non-profit sector. Examples: - textbooks--topics that haven't changed in centuries--better-covered by texts from generations ago. school system still buys sorry books at $100+ a pop because salesgirl wined-and-dined the right batch of bureaucrats. pearson, mc-graw, et al spend a few thousand, then rake in millions. - job training--local corp wants more welders/java programmers/truckers, drops some cash on school board members (directly or indirectly), then bibbity-bobbity-boo there's a brand new training center attached to a high school for some thing that I would barely even consider to be education. again, leverage to hell-and-back. tens of thousands in bribes, millions in taxpayer $$$ for free worker training & wage reduction. - educational software--oh my God. have you even seen some of the shit they waste the kids' time with these days. how does it come about? same story as the rest. - religion--the motive behind most western art and history, be it protagonist or antagonist. can't talk about it though--massive black hole in any sort of humanities education. - owned teachers--the front-line infantry, who should be able to offer constructive insights into the process are utterly powerless. too poorly paid to accumulate f-you money, and so terrified of getting kicked out before their pensions vest, they must keep their opinions to themselves and quietly tow the line. - poor accreditation--by the numbers, education programs at colleges have notoriously low standards. verified by personal experience. we had math teachers who couldn't multiply, and english teachers who couldn't diagram a sentence. thank God for the teacher's edition! I could go on, and on, and on...

AnimalMuppet 7y ago

Yes, homeschool should be considered as at least an option if you care about your childrens' education. The rest of the parent comment is paranoid drivel, which I do not endorse.

jstewartmobile 7y ago
did you go to public school? an ordinary one?
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  Some of the time. Define "ordinary". Also state why you think that's a relevant question.
  - jstewartmobile 7y ago
    "Ordinary" being the typical sort of public school most children in your city/county/etc would go to. A school that pre-selects students based on race, wealth, test scores, etc would not count as ordinary for obvious reasons. If what I wrote was drivel, it should be very easy to refute. Just labeling it as drivel seems like a cop-out--driven more by ideology than first-hand experience.
    - AnimalMuppet 7y ago
      By your definition, yes, I went to an ordinary school. My personal experience is against your position, for what it's worth. >>> Their paymasters want high-value cogs. > If what I wrote was drivel, it should be very easy to refute. You made the claim. You have the burden of proof. Show that either the educational bureaucrats have a "paymaster" that is different from the state bureaucracy, or that the higher-ups in the state bureaucracy want "high-value cogs".
      - jstewartmobile 7y ago
        "educational bureaucrats" includes "state bureaucracy". They're just pocket-lining middlemen. They have no agency. The final "paymasters" would be corporations, small businesses, and their PR agents in the non-profit sector. Examples: - textbooks--topics that haven't changed in centuries--better-covered by texts from generations ago. school system still buys sorry books at $100+ a pop because salesgirl wined-and-dined the right batch of bureaucrats. pearson, mc-graw, et al spend a few thousand, then rake in millions. - job training--local corp wants more welders/java programmers/truckers, drops some cash on school board members (directly or indirectly), then bibbity-bobbity-boo there's a brand new training center attached to a high school for some thing that I would barely even consider to be education. again, leverage to hell-and-back. tens of thousands in bribes, millions in taxpayer $$$ for free worker training & wage reduction. - educational software--oh my God. have you even seen some of the shit they waste the kids' time with these days. how does it come about? same story as the rest. - religion--the motive behind most western art and history, be it protagonist or antagonist. can't talk about it though--massive black hole in any sort of humanities education. - owned teachers--the front-line infantry, who should be able to offer constructive insights into the process are utterly powerless. too poorly paid to accumulate f-you money, and so terrified of getting kicked out before their pensions vest, they must keep their opinions to themselves and quietly tow the line. - poor accreditation--by the numbers, education programs at colleges have notoriously low standards. verified by personal experience. we had math teachers who couldn't multiply, and english teachers who couldn't diagram a sentence. thank God for the teacher's edition! I could go on, and on, and on...