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The cure to that would be letting colorblind standards work over time, but that's politically unacceptable because too many people derive their income from nons
by mbg721 3y ago
The cure to that would be letting colorblind standards work over time, but that's politically unacceptable because too many people derive their income from nonsense like "merit is a white colonial construct". Quit treating people differently based on race, and racist kooks will be irrelevant.
- btilly 3y agoI agree with the spirit of this comment, but note that quitting treating people differently requires fixing the school system so that minorities don't consistently start off in second rate schools. It isn't just one side that finds talking about real solutions politically unacceptable.
- sokoloff 3y agoI think it's more precise/actionable to say that quitting treating people differently "includes" fixing discrepancies in the primary and secondary school systems, rather than "requires" it.
- btilly 3y agoI strongly disagree. But saying that it is required, I'm drawing attention to the fact that it must be done to succeed. I believe it must be done because, starting with Piaget's work, we have evidence that children go through important developmental stages. Some lessons missed at specific ages, can be missed forever. If I had merely said included, that makes it easy to walk away thinking that it is just one of many things that advance the goal. Which takes away from a must, to a nice to have. And then we can excuse not doing it based on the price tag. While imagining that the other things we're doing somehow will add up to a real fix. A piece of imagination that we make easier by discounting the evidence of standardized tests which demonstrate exactly how badly we, as a society, are failing. My whole point is that, since the popular rejection of school busing, neither party has been willing to try to honestly tackle this problem.