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39 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 29 May \ on: Grading for Equity coming to San Francisco high schools this fall Education
ooof.
This is not the way. Reminds me of Ayn Rand's world in Anthem. Also the phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations". The solution isn't to provide those students from poor families more help and tutoring. Just grade on a curve. I mean, I get it to some extent because the whole system is like a machine and grading systems have issues... but to me this is not attacking the root issues but rather making people feel better. And really... that won't work as kids will know when they are being patronized. Just as the "everyone gets a trophy" thing hasn't work.
Honestly, I'm to the point of thinking the whole thing is a lost cause. So called public education doesn't work without a cohesive culture with strong families and a shared tribal or national identity. We no longer have that in the US. Its making a comeback (see Return of the Strong Gods) but its not gonna be uniform.
The goal in public education was to create a uniform system to create "good" citizens and workers. I would argue that isn't really working anymore as the post war consistence is to oppose nationalism in favor of cultural appreciation and deconstruction. Even when I was in school we were being taught how terrible our past was. Of course the most important lessons were ignored but it was very anti-western civilization even back in the 90s. Its way worse now.
I wish private schools were better but in my experience they just copy the curriculum and only really change things on the margins. This is especially true of so called "Christian" education. I am curious how Muslim schools in the US are designed. I suspect they are much less statist.
Homeschooling really is the way if you can do it. Many people learned they could do it during Covid. But even if you can't just augmenting public education is required.
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