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Remedial Education for All
- noduerme 5y agoSo, it's not exactly news that public schools cater to and teach to the lowest common denominator. It was true in the 80s too. So either don't send your kids to public schools, or teach them to pursue their own interests and to work on their own education. Should they gear up solely to improve outcomes of the bottom 5%? Does it work to benefit society? I don't know, that's a political issue. Is it fair? Fuck no, but the counterargument is that other things that aren't fair need to be made more fair through the educational system. Either way, Quillette and its hysterical fear mongering and sponsorship of fascists can bite my ass. We all came up under the same system. We're okay. The people who respond angrily to articles like these are the ones who have a chip on their shoulder and blame other people for not getting a fair shake. Oh, the system was stacked against you because it spent too much time pandering to the LCD? Where was your ambition, pal?