watching the sf community hate on jason calcanis for wanting to set up a homeschool buble (he’s even offering 100% scholarships to students based on merit) is something else if you don’t like the solution propose yours, “the revolution is coming for you” takes are creepy & lazy
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“Merit“ is code for “no children with learning disabilities, dyslexia, reading disabilities. . .” This is ableist
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Replying to @BluebirdRave @Jason
not necessarily! many children with extraordinary talents & abilities also suffer from disabilities at the same time (e.g. dyslexia, e.g. anxiety, e.g. adhd, e.g. aspergers), children are unique. different environments enable their learning differently, not segregationist
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Replying to @BluebirdRave @Jason
if you are only interested in reading the absolutely most distorted, insensitive and incorrect interpretations into what i'm saying you're a tweet away from being blocked, but there's nothing wrong with
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You just proved my point.
@jason doesn't want students who are struggling academically in his child's pod. His "benevolent" "merit-based" scholarships are tools to screen out "those kids" from his kids' pod. Merit-based scholarships are a tool of segregation.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @BluebirdRave @Jason
merit based scholarships are a good idea in general and I can't imagine that you believe that such things should not exist, and so it must be, that you think this instance is different? is your belief that all children should be subject to the identical educational environment?
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You didn't define merit-based
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there should be 7 billion definitions at least; one for every potential teacher. the point is to let the (many) schools / teachers decide rather than the one, standardised (and at the moment dysfunctional) system decide
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