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The tragedy is that the pressure on wealthy parents to not give their kids an education that sets them apart reduces experimentation for better schools/alternatives. We've deemed education "too important" to ever be improved by the processes that improve other goods & services.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1290178526461562880 …
Separately, we're still grappling with a crisis over the purpose of education: Is it to produce expert test-takers with a vast range of narrow skills, or to hone the natural human capacity for reflection, adaptation, problem-solving and iterative self-refinement?
I think the two are related, because once a parent feels permitted to be fully driven by their love for their child, unobscured by external expectations and social pressures, it becomes a bit clearer what the goal ought to be and how it can be aimed at. Excuses fall away.
It's easy enough to recalibrate. Is the kid coming home exhausted but energized, desperate to keep chewing or working on the day's ideas? Or is he defeated? A child that can be described as "defeated" should be the abnormality. We've let it become *much* too close to the norm.
Parents know what their kids look like when they're "in the zone" re: the thrill of learning something or developing their mastery of some skill. The real question is why they feel so helpless to find or create a situation where they're in that mode most of the time.
Idk, aren’t expensive prep schools the choice for many wealthy parents? And isn’t it the same model as every other kind of school just less standardized testing and better connections/guidance for elite college admissions?
Hmmm. No parent listens to that pressure. That’s why the pressure itself is so fucking stupid. How about we reverse the budgets of the DOE and DOD and just get poor people real access to basic education in whatever form.
Exactly. Raising the minimum and raising the maximum shouldn't be mutually exclusive. Tinkering should be encouraged.
The sad irony is that even the distributional part of the argument is incorrect. Poor families will also be better educating their kids at home, and yes, many do have a nonworking member who can lead the pod.
Parents that do want their kid to be set above do experiment here - look at TSwifts Wikipedia on how her parents raised her. Same with Serena Williams. Most parents don’t want that though. They want to maximize likelihood child will make $200k/year
As someone who has been deeply involved with education and educational technology, I disagree. Private schools are the vehicle by which wealthy parents set their kids apart, and experimentation (though not radical) does happen. 1/
Education actually is too important to use regular free market competition to improve them. You can look at New Orleans, whose schools were converted to 100% charter schools, as a good example of that. I do not find it acceptable for schools just go out of business. 2/
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