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The wealthy are going to send their kids to private schools, and homeschool coops. People might talk a lot of woke on twitter, but nobody is going to willingly

The wealthy are going to send their kids to private schools, and homeschool coops. People might talk a lot of woke on twitter, but nobody is going to willingly handicap their own children in the name of some nebulous greater good. It's exactly the same as liberal NIMBYs. Preach tolerance and acceptance until somebody who doesn't look, talk, and think exactly like you, wants to live in your neighborhood and alter your precious neighborhood aesthetic.

jkhdigital 5y ago
The irony is that this same logic is twisted beyond recognition to justify these “alternative” curricula: just because these math classes don’t look like yours (algebra is “white” math, I guess) doesn’t mean they aren’t just as valuable.
felistoria 5y ago
Teaching Pod start up is seeming like a better idea everyday.
tinyhouse 5y ago
Exactly. Every time it's the same thing. They come up with stupid rules for the sake of equity, just to realize they made things worse cause everyone who could afford it moved to another town, or private school, etc. My town one day decided to cancel so many school traditions like the halloween parade for the sake of equity. Then they didn't allow in-person learning during the entire year. Then they did many other stupid things like that. Everyone I know who could afford it moved. They just have no clue what they are doing, they are just trying to look good, but in practice are doing more harm than good.
rdtwo 5y ago
You think private schools aren’t teaching woke ideologye? You are wrong. The future rules are are getting schooled in proper wokeness so they can run hr department and navigate proper corporate norms.
- tannhauser23 5y ago
  The difference is that private schools teach math/reading/writing at high levels. Otherwise parents would not put up with the political stuff that also gets packaged in.
cm2187 5y ago
What is worrying though is that universities preach the same wokeism and seem to apply it to their recruitment. Whatever value they add or not, the top universities form a very effective cartel and gatekeeper to the most prestigious and/or lucrative careers. This can efficiently cancel the benefits of taking your kids out of public schools. I think long term, wokeism will kill those universities. A not insignificant part of the population isn’t impressed with slogans like “decolonise maths”, and the perception that they are handing over diplomas in the name of social justice, rather than skills, inflates away the value of those diploma. My own modest contribution to their demise is to give equal consideration to CVs of candidates from less prestigious universities. And I have seen enough idiots graduating from top universities to think that this credentials system was broken even before wokeism.
- freemint 5y ago
  Wokeism will kill universities? Kill institutions that have been around longer than the USofA?
  - cm2187 5y ago
    At the end of the day what makes a top university is its reputation, its brand. Any other measurable metric (SAT scores, quality of research, size of endowment fund, etc) is a consequence of that. There is no better way to hurt their brand than what they are doing now. And by "kill" I don't mean "close", I mean kill their reputation. And I think it's a good thing. I much prefer the German system which, as I understand it, doesn't rely on a small number of elite universities, and where you have to evaluate the candidate rather than its credentials.
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jkhdigital 5y ago

The irony is that this same logic is twisted beyond recognition to justify these “alternative” curricula: just because these math classes don’t look like yours (algebra is “white” math, I guess) doesn’t mean they aren’t just as valuable.

felistoria 5y ago

Teaching Pod start up is seeming like a better idea everyday.

tinyhouse 5y ago

Exactly. Every time it's the same thing. They come up with stupid rules for the sake of equity, just to realize they made things worse cause everyone who could afford it moved to another town, or private school, etc. My town one day decided to cancel so many school traditions like the halloween parade for the sake of equity. Then they didn't allow in-person learning during the entire year. Then they did many other stupid things like that. Everyone I know who could afford it moved. They just have no clue what they are doing, they are just trying to look good, but in practice are doing more harm than good.

rdtwo 5y ago

You think private schools aren’t teaching woke ideologye? You are wrong. The future rules are are getting schooled in proper wokeness so they can run hr department and navigate proper corporate norms.

tannhauser23 5y ago
The difference is that private schools teach math/reading/writing at high levels. Otherwise parents would not put up with the political stuff that also gets packaged in.

cm2187 5y ago

What is worrying though is that universities preach the same wokeism and seem to apply it to their recruitment. Whatever value they add or not, the top universities form a very effective cartel and gatekeeper to the most prestigious and/or lucrative careers. This can efficiently cancel the benefits of taking your kids out of public schools. I think long term, wokeism will kill those universities. A not insignificant part of the population isn’t impressed with slogans like “decolonise maths”, and the perception that they are handing over diplomas in the name of social justice, rather than skills, inflates away the value of those diploma. My own modest contribution to their demise is to give equal consideration to CVs of candidates from less prestigious universities. And I have seen enough idiots graduating from top universities to think that this credentials system was broken even before wokeism.

freemint 5y ago
Wokeism will kill universities? Kill institutions that have been around longer than the USofA?
- cm2187 5y ago
  At the end of the day what makes a top university is its reputation, its brand. Any other measurable metric (SAT scores, quality of research, size of endowment fund, etc) is a consequence of that. There is no better way to hurt their brand than what they are doing now. And by "kill" I don't mean "close", I mean kill their reputation. And I think it's a good thing. I much prefer the German system which, as I understand it, doesn't rely on a small number of elite universities, and where you have to evaluate the candidate rather than its credentials.

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