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This article is a confidence trick. By making it about COVID, the affluent readers of the New York Times can pat themselves on the back as if they weren't fail
by dogleash 5y ago
This article is a confidence trick.
By making it about COVID, the affluent readers of the New York Times can pat themselves on the back as if they weren't failing the youth prior to quarantine measures. Of course they were.
I've seen it. Everyone's seen it; even if they've chosen to believe they haven't. The secondary sources have to water it down like this article if they want to talk about it at all. And the primary sources where it's laid bare are a bit too dirty and undomesticated to mention in polite society. Not as if anyone wants to be caught cavorting with primaries at all these days, lest the blue checks turn their back on it (and you, by association).
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- partiallypro 5y agoIt is that schooling has been not great, but COVID has made it much worse. Remote learning and kids not being able to socialize has been incredibly detremental.
- istjohn 5y agoI agree 100% that US public schools have been failing our kids for years, but I'm curious what these primary sources are that you refer to.
- querez 5y agoWould you mind citing some of those primary sources so people who aren't in the know (like me) can educate themselves?
- dqpb 5y agoYou’re being a little too cryptic.
- dogleash 5y agoCOVID procedures negatively impacted schooling, it follows that removing COVID restrictions and procedures will positively impact schooling. That's all fine and good so far... Let's posit going back to 2018-era schooling will provide 4 Units of School Improvement. 4 USI sounds great, right? What if there was 40 USI just sitting on the shelf waiting to be picked up? But it's in a blind spot. It was there waiting in 2018 and never touched. The 4 USI can be achieved by getting rid of the things we never wanted in the first place. Achieving that 40 USI will mean ruthlessly tearing into the status quo. So, let's circle back and remind ourselves that this is an article using big words and statistics to state the obvious: schooling under covid sucks. No shit, that's not news, but it's in The Times. So let's look more carefully at what it does say. They're not learning enough, and the institutional socialization is producing people less well-adjusted than ever. OK, technically true. But those were the most visible problems with schools before COVID too. So, why is this specific article - written this way - in The Times? What purpose(es) - deliberate or not - does it serve?
- datagram 5y agoThis is no less cryptic. Either tell us what you think the solution is and point us to these primary sources that "lay it bare" or don't bother saying anything. Dancing around it like this is pointless.