@irondavy 1. Totally on board with school as signaling. 2. Maybe "few spots at top" was imprecise. "Stronger winner-take-all dynamic"?
A (from article): There are many kids and few spots "at the top," so competition is a natural response to incentiveshttps://twitter.com/theatlantic/status/668078745044013056 …
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@irondavy Also 3, just useful to have a counter-narrative to "parents are to blame for pushing their kids too much." - 5 more replies
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@wargfranklin Yeah. Always some mix of zero-sum and non-zero-sum dynamics though.
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@wargfranklin Jungle/Frontier are great names for the two dynamics/ecosystems. Clearly we are in some mix of the two, are we not?
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@irondavy@KevinSimler wrong conclusion, unless you just want to find rich kids. Better would be to have rigorous exams that you had to passThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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