A lot of our damn education policy follows a logic that looks an awful lot like the logic of slavedrivers.
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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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agree w/your cogent commentary, especially w/my 24 yrs experience working in the Catch 22/damned if you do or don’t of public schls. -
Being a teacher and working, in effect, for the “boss” of TxLege is like being in a toxic relationship w/a spouse who is alternates b/w
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