It wasn't until 1987 that the American Academy of Pediatrics explicitly recommended giving babies pain relief during surgical procedures. 1987!(!!!) Why? Parental outrage, initially kicked off by a mother whose infant received *open heart surgery* with no pain management.
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Parents and communities would want better, if they knew to. An entire social-cultural-regulatory-infrastructural immune system is required to protect extant institutions from people who know enough & are incented to improve them, and the internet is the ultimate monkey wrench
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The intertia in education is real, but it's artificially generated and maintained. Parents go to extreme lengths to get incremental improvements within the system — buying a home for the school district, for example — so protecting the status quo is actually a massive project
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