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It's very clearly unfair, I'm not sure what your example has to do with anything. No students performance should be a sum based on how previous students have d
by weego 6y ago
It's very clearly unfair, I'm not sure what your example has to do with anything.
No students performance should be a sum based on how previous students have done at their school. That's literally reinforcing the postcode divide in education quality that were supposed to turn a blind eye to.
My home town school has historically refused to even put children in for exams if they didn't get at least a C grade in their mocks because they valued league table position so highly (helps with investment and alumni donations etc). That cynical and should-be-illegal approach clearly benefits their students in this situation more than schools in the area that do right by their children.
And more than any of that, this is the real world effects of the bullshit algorithm peddlers have been pushing for the last few years. Algorithms can solve any real world problem given the data. Well they can't. They can give the proposition of an answer to the problem, but at costs to some that are too high to bear.
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- oh_sigh 6y agoMy high school had one person 3 years prior to my senior year get into an Ivy, and then before that it was no one in recent memory. In my senior class, 6 of us got into Ivies. I can only imagine what my life would be like if we only got the "fair" allotment of zero Ivy spots in a system like this.
- stordoff 6y agoSimilar happened to me (UK) - my school went from performing under the national average for the preceding three years to being notably above for my year group, and no one could remember anyone going to Oxbridge, but there were two of us in that year (the school barely even knew about the extra exams we had to take - required for one, optional for the other - so the prep. was more or less entirely self-taught).