A lot of our damn education policy follows a logic that looks an awful lot like the logic of slavedrivers.
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But even better: we ADD to their labor the measurement of their own labor!! We make the measurement of their labor the bulk of their labor!!
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God, No Child Left Behind was the worst fucking idea anyone has had in years.
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The fundamental unchangeable fucking problem is: you want schools to provide equality of opportunity in a wildly unequal society.
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And yet, you don't want to provide the wildly disproportionate resources that would make up the gap for poor families. Y'all are a mess.
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Maybe we should just make schools the community centers we are trying to force them to be without resourcing them as such.
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Truly, there's actually a glimmer of hope there. Being funded as school (and wasting a lot of that money on measuring themselves)...
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Schools are STILL doing an incredible job serving as community centers, given the context. Imagine if we resourced them as such.
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