sorry just riled at 9 in the morning by another fb post from high school advertising test prep for $100/hour anyways can i get the silicon valley meritocracy vote on this
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if ur school meets a certain standard and you don’t have extenuating family or income circumstances you just shouldn’t be allowed to do standardized test prep classes like sorry kid everything you needed was given to you ur just fuckin dumb
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been pointed out to me that i’m not including learning impairments or mental health in here sorry when i said family i was thinking like a broad spectrum of personal & family concerns incl health things like these but the wording was bad
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the problem is test prep doesn't teach you the underlying reasoning skills but standardized tests serve as a metric for those skills and what you end up is testprepped rich kids skating on no merit into institutions designed to reward and encourage actual potential and hard work
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if you can't pass the SAT then spend more time in english class or get a math tutor don't memorize a set of narrow test tricks that don't actually teach anything except how to game the system
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lmao sorry dude if you had a good education and no extenuating circumstances and still felt the need to game the SAT which is like.........basic ass reading comprehension and algebra 2 level math then you simply did not deserve a good score
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what that's literally the opposite of what i said. this is clearer https://twitter.com/snekwitcoldtake/status/1217560354755993600?s=20 …
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yeah i mean a single test score can only be a judgment within a roughly equal band of circumstances but i think a lot of why the SAT is extra unmeritocratic now is precisely bc rich kids are gaming it and it's impossible to implement but that shit should be banned lmao
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its a good thing people with adhd or mental deficiencies dont exist or this take would start to look a little bad
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sorry i did think about this and categorized stuff like dyslexia or adhd and other health things into “family” but yeah that wasn’t clear that’s my bad
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At poor rural high schools like the one I went to, we were actively told that these tests measured innate ability and weren’t something you studied for. How my mind was blown when I found out what kids from far better schools were doing to prepare for these exams
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