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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 2
      Replying to @babagannoujh

      BART employees are more highly paid than Lambda School teachers, yet the trains don’t run on time and are a mess. Why is that?

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    2. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 2
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      True or false, the majority of your “teachers” are already wealthy in their own right?

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    3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 2
      Replying to @babagannoujh

      True, and unimportant. We could still have a very crappy school with wealthy, well-paid teachers. If you put those same teachers in the public school system they would have a very hard time being successful.

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    4. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 2
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      How the actual fuck do you think that works?

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    5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 2
      Replying to @babagannoujh

      Have you ever been in a poor district? My wife worked in one. She worked her ass off, didn’t move the needle much, because everything around her was broken.

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    6. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 2
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      Yes. I’ve been in many poor districts. I’ve had to convince myself that people were lighting off fireworks (in February). I moved from one place when bullets came through my window and from another when they found a body in our yard.

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    7. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 3
      Replying to @babagannoujh

      And you think teachers making $100k would solve that?

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    8. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 4
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      You seem to be someone that clings to whatever surface you can find in order to dismiss the substance. Let’s call it $80k or $120k or some other $ figure that incentivizes top talent to apply. It’s the same logic your so called school leverages to justify its existence.

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    9. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 4
      Replying to @babagannoujh

      No, you seem to be not understanding my argument, and unwilling t even fathom that yours might be missing something. Teachers can only do so much if the rest of the system is broken. Especially for elementary aged children.

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    10. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 4
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      If you think I’m missing something, perhaps you could clarify your position? Pointing at something and groaning “broken!” is a ghastly look.

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 4
      Replying to @babagannoujh

      School structure, who is on a school board, organizational behavior of a school, students’ home lives, measurement methods, etc. all matter greatly, and paying teachers more doesn’t fix any of those things.

      8:35 AM - 4 Apr 2018
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        2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 4
          Replying to @AustenAllred @babagannoujh

          If you just started paying teachers more there would be highly-paid teachers handicapped in what they do by the rest of what is broken about our public education system.

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        3. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 4
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Regarding just paying teachers more, I‘d kind of agree with you if we’re talking about just shelling out cash to existing teachers, but that’s not how the reality would play out and you either know it and you’re being argumentative or you’re not thinking broadly enough.

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        2. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 4
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          School structures are determined at a local level and are largely self-defined or defined in conjunction with a school board (the majority of which are elected). Attracting top talent to the field would, over time, provide a corrective influence. Bluntly, you’re wrong on this.

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        3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Apr 4
          Replying to @babagannoujh

          The power teachers have over school boards is negligible. Bluntly, you're wrong.

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        4. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 4
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Again, you’re not thinking broadly enough. How is it you came to believe you were able to educate people? Seems more like that kind of mindset would churn out performing monkeys.

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        1. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 4
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Metrics are a mess and we currently have No Child Left Behind to thank, though the underlying lack of worthwhile national standards preceded the passage of the Act. Again, I fail to see how attracting top talent to the field would fail to provide a corrective influence.

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        1. Jason Flanagan‏ @babagannoujh Apr 4
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          As I said earlier (and you ignored) there are societal issues at play. So we are both correct, there. Home lives are severely impacted by income inequality, which is, broadly speaking, unevenly skewed along racial/skin tone lines.

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