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>I never agreed to artificial scarcity in the form of admission slots, and so I'm not interested in defending any particular consequence of that system. https:
by scythe 5y ago
>I never agreed to artificial scarcity in the form of admission slots, and so I'm not interested in defending any particular consequence of that system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
- woodruffw 5y agoI don't think there's anything particularly dreamy or fanciful about a more equal educational system. My understanding is that the US, with its uniquely devolved set of educational authorities and standards is alone in the developed world in terms of the inequality of education offered to its children.
- refurb 5y agoI assume you either have little experience with the US school system or other countries school systems. There is most definitely similar inequality in other countries.
- SyzygistSix 5y agoDo they also have a permanent underclass with a high crime rate and result in mass incarceration?
- refurb 5y agoPermanent underclass? Yes. Mass incarceration? Depending on your definition
- scythe 5y ago>the US, with its uniquely devolved set of educational authorities and standards is alone in the developed world in terms of the inequality of education offered to its children. In terms of primary and secondary education, absolutely. In higher education, inequality is common across countries, but higher education has a much smaller average effect on actual life outcomes than childhood education. Yet somehow reforming the school system (and the avaricious correlation between property taxes and outcomes) gets a lot less political oxygen.
- cuteboy19 5y agoEvery other country has a similar system. Even the Soviet communists, at the height of their power, had more or less the same system.