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This gives me new perspective. I wish we had more discussion like this. If all media could list facts and stats, and lay out all kinds of reasons and assumptio

This gives me new perspective. I wish we had more discussion like this. If all media could list facts and stats, and lay out all kinds of reasons and assumptions. Unfortunately, both left and right media are doing the opposite. For instance, some right labels NYC teacher's union as a woke entity. The teacher union said that reopening school was racist. And Twitter, oh, the almighty righteous Twitter, simply bans the accounts who are opposing CDC's guidelines. It's just so hard to see influential medias and platforms to engage nuanced discussion.

whimsicalism 6y ago
Okay, here are some of the stats I'm relying on to say that desegregation is needed and good: * Randomly assigned poor & black students to socioeconomically diverse and non-diverse schools, found rich-poor achievement gap was halved in math (https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2010/10/16005437/tcf-Schwartz-2.pdf https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2010/10/1600543...) * Systemic benefits in national tests for students in socioeconomically diverse schools, regardless of family background (https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomically-and-racially-integrated-schools-and-classrooms https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomica... along with a whole laundry list of other evidence). * Evidence that minority parents in my school district favor distance learning while the pandemic continues. I couldn't find the original stat because the thread was deleted, but here is a similar poll showing the same thing (https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/ https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-op...)
- hintymad 6y ago
  Thanks. I was not challenging your comment. Instead, I was trying to compliment yours, as it gives a new perspective on why teacher's union didn't want schools to open. Otherwise, I had this impression that the union used racism to hide their true motives.

whimsicalism 6y ago

Okay, here are some of the stats I'm relying on to say that desegregation is needed and good: * Randomly assigned poor & black students to socioeconomically diverse and non-diverse schools, found rich-poor achievement gap was halved in math (https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2010/10/16005437/tcf-Schwartz-2.pdf https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2010/10/1600543...) * Systemic benefits in national tests for students in socioeconomically diverse schools, regardless of family background (https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomically-and-racially-integrated-schools-and-classrooms https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomica... along with a whole laundry list of other evidence). * Evidence that minority parents in my school district favor distance learning while the pandemic continues. I couldn't find the original stat because the thread was deleted, but here is a similar poll showing the same thing (https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-open-many-black-parents-keeping-kids-home/ https://www.the74million.org/article/as-more-dcps-schools-op...)

hintymad 6y ago
Thanks. I was not challenging your comment. Instead, I was trying to compliment yours, as it gives a new perspective on why teacher's union didn't want schools to open. Otherwise, I had this impression that the union used racism to hide their true motives.