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I suspect it’s not being addressed well because it’s one of the fundamental challenges of school in the first place. For many, assessment and grades are the end

I suspect it’s not being addressed well because it’s one of the fundamental challenges of school in the first place. For many, assessment and grades are the end goal, and any learning that happens is secondary.

blueboo 3y ago
The status quo is a miserable mess, but consider “assessment and grades” is the best apparent evidence of ultimate-goal-“learning”. Is that not reasonable for people who pay for education to ask for? If it is reasonable, then the problem is likely the form of evidence and not its requirement se de
- sdenton4 3y ago
  What barbarous society makes people pay for education?
  - qwerpy 3y ago
    What utopia has teachers who teach for free and buildings that materialize from thin air?
  - losvedir 3y ago
    Every society since Adam & Eve when knowledge grew on trees.
  - zaat 3y ago
    Every society where's education is available. There are different approaches to who and how to cover the bills, but someone must do, if no one else is covering the costs, the educators do.
  - kuchenbecker 3y ago
    One whose residents value continued education differently from each other and thus present the costs to the individual to make their own decision. What kind of world makes the poor person working a manual job pay for someone else going to college?
    - johnnyworker 3y ago
      Then tax the rich properly, and they'll bear the lion's share of anything public funded. Ruining public schooling by under funding and having expensive private education for those that can afford it is just the neoliberal agenda. If there were no private schools, if they were illegal, along with home schooling -- not saying they should be, but if they were -- the wealthy would pump funds into the public schooling system before you can say "fuck you got mine". (Kinda like no private bunkers would mean a sudden interest in mitigating climate change globally and for everyone, hah)
  - blueboo 3y ago
    Are educators not paid? From whence come those wages I only meant to acknowledge the societal investment, not imply private education

blueboo 3y ago

The status quo is a miserable mess, but consider “assessment and grades” is the best apparent evidence of ultimate-goal-“learning”. Is that not reasonable for people who pay for education to ask for? If it is reasonable, then the problem is likely the form of evidence and not its requirement se de

sdenton4 3y ago
What barbarous society makes people pay for education?
- qwerpy 3y ago
  What utopia has teachers who teach for free and buildings that materialize from thin air?
- losvedir 3y ago
  Every society since Adam & Eve when knowledge grew on trees.
- zaat 3y ago
  Every society where's education is available. There are different approaches to who and how to cover the bills, but someone must do, if no one else is covering the costs, the educators do.
- kuchenbecker 3y ago
  One whose residents value continued education differently from each other and thus present the costs to the individual to make their own decision. What kind of world makes the poor person working a manual job pay for someone else going to college?
  - johnnyworker 3y ago
    Then tax the rich properly, and they'll bear the lion's share of anything public funded. Ruining public schooling by under funding and having expensive private education for those that can afford it is just the neoliberal agenda. If there were no private schools, if they were illegal, along with home schooling -- not saying they should be, but if they were -- the wealthy would pump funds into the public schooling system before you can say "fuck you got mine". (Kinda like no private bunkers would mean a sudden interest in mitigating climate change globally and for everyone, hah)
- blueboo 3y ago
  Are educators not paid? From whence come those wages I only meant to acknowledge the societal investment, not imply private education