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It's easy to imagine this is a perversion of the purpose that public schools are intended to serve, but it's not. This is the purpose public schools are intende
by throwanem 7y ago
It's easy to imagine this is a perversion of the purpose that public schools are intended to serve, but it's not. This is the purpose public schools are intended to serve: to create conformity, by whatever means are required, in order to render a society predictable and thus manageable. In service of that purpose, individual children are disposable.
- tptacek 7y agoWell, sure, that and Algebra II/Trig.
- mcguire 7y agoWell, yeah, but Resistance to Interrogation training is valuable.
- simonsarris 7y agoWhat % of high schoolers graduate knowing Algebra II and Trig? edit: 76%? I'm suspicious. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=97 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=97
- tptacek 7y agoAlgebra II / Trig was a graduation requirement at my kids public high school.
- simonsarris 7y agoWhat is a graduation requirement for high school and what high school students know (or can read, at all) at graduation are very different, regardless of whether they graduate.
- pvg 7y agoThe same can be asked about the claimed requirement that students graduate as docile cogs in a pliant social machine. Like, what are the stats for that so we can assess which one is the more accurate description of the purpose of schools?
- burfog 7y agoIt was, if you ignored the escape hatch. Anybody unable to pass the classes can be judged to have a disability (call it "dyscalcula") and then allowed to graduate with reduced requirements. This stuff is making a mockery of education. It has even hit college now, with many students getting extra time for tests simply because they were shameless about claiming a disability.