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>It didn’t have the special education system or disciplinary rules that are required of charter schools, the former administrator said. But students wore record
by duxup 1y ago
>It didn’t have the special education system or disciplinary rules that are required of charter schools, the former administrator said. But students wore recording devices dubbed “speech pedometers” so that software could analyze the speech patterns of children and the adults around them. The technology was designed by a nonprofit to encourage staffers to talk more with students in ways that studies suggest encourage brain and language development.
>“It was beyond naivete,” the former administrator said. “It was hubris.”
What the heck?
Education is hard, and it's surprising how much "gee whizz" type tech / ideas are out there that supposedly fix things like a magic wand. And in the meantime, no disciplinary rules?
- dmix 1y agoMaybe I'm getting old but I don't remember education being seriously broken when I was growing up. It seems to have become a playground of random new ideas that administrators in offices dream up every year. I've heard some crazy stories from family who works in education where this sort of thing wouldn't stand out.
- duxup 1y agoIt’s not clear to me what anyone means by broken. Difficult maybe.
- crawfordcomeaux 1y agoCracks show up when viewed from a lens of "wait...was that domination-oriented, dualistic, whitewashed, imperialistic, nationalistic, colonial indoctrination in the form of education?".
- unethical_ban 1y agoNope! Next. Cell phones and parental non accountability are probably bigger issues.
- crawfordcomeaux 1y agoNote the absence of critical thinking, another issue with the education systems.
- unethical_ban 1y agoI don't disagree with the notion of jingoism in public education. I disagree that it has anything to do with the myriad behavioral and performance issues in public schooling.
- crawfordcomeaux 1y agoWhen you have an entire system dependent on compliance, you have a system of oppression. Behaviorism is already debunked as a way to evaluate how people respond to such situations because it completely ignores the internal state of people. Any system doing that is already a dehumanized system. The performance and behavior issues will continue until the spiritual beatings cease. You cannot keep imposing systems of oppression onto people and medicate away their natural responses to it. Let the riot be the rhyme of the unheard and may these kids flip over all the desks of the adults not walking out of their jobs in response to fascism.
- Aloisius 1y agoSounds like a warped lens. Perhaps better glasses are in order.
- crawfordcomeaux 1y agoGot a prescription?