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I'm not interested in "correcting" for demographics. You can't simply remove 25% of the population because you find statistics inconvenient.
by michaelchisari 16y ago
I'm not interested in "correcting" for demographics. You can't simply remove 25% of the population because you find statistics inconvenient.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoHypothetical: if teacher A has a class of poor black students, and teacher B has a class of rich asian students, shall we directly compare test scores? If teacher A's students perform 1 stddev worse than teacher B's, shall we fire teacher A for poor performance? If you don't want to do it for teachers, why do it for educational systems?
- michaelchisari 16y agoI prefer not to reduce complex, intersecting systems to oversimplified hypotheticals.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoHuh? You want to ignore all factors relevant to the question except one (school quality), I try to introduce a second factor, and I'm oversimplifying? Please go look up the definition of "simple".
- michaelchisari 16y agoI'm sure that's how you see it, but the fact is, that the OP posited the idea that unions were incompatible with a healthy education system. There are simply too many counter-examples to that. Further, you've pushed the conversation into a discussion about race and class by way of an abstract hypothetical. From your posting history, I'm not really interested in having such a complex discussion with you.