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Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud here -- everyone wants to believe in education improvement but there's a harsh reality of the industry that is pretty

Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud here -- everyone wants to believe in education improvement but there's a harsh reality of the industry that is pretty unpleasant to confront. I think the only hope would be to run a pilot and show such an improvement in student testing levels that it would be fast-tracked or mandated for approval.

shermantanktop 2y ago
…or be accused of cooking the books, labeled as anti-union, or other ad hominem attacks. I’m not a fan of SV edutech ventures for various reasons, but the school districts that they hope to sink their pointy teeth into have very effective immune systems against change.
- mrandish 2y ago
  Yes, I LOLed at your comment. K-12 is especially soul crushing for tech startups, which is why I now think of K-12 school district buyers like Obi Wan thinks of Mos Eisley.
  - notjoemama 2y ago
    Maybe part of it is seeing education as a massive untapped wallet? There's a reason Teachers Pay Teachers exists and frankly, given the greed of Silicon Valley and existing ED companies, isn't it an environmentally created immune system?
    - bongodongobob 2y ago
      Maybe. I'd love to see whatever the Apple + MECC version would be today.
    - shermantanktop 2y ago
      Teachers and administrators have decades of experience at getting treated as targets for culture-war grandstanding. Having a 28yo tech CEO barely older than their students tell them that a cool website will reverse the effects of poverty is probably just a different flavor.