Incredible how reflexive the disdain is for parents who take any measure of real interest in how their own children are educated. The US is supposedly a hyper-individualistic culture, but kids are assumed to belong to a collective that explicitly needs them for further funding.https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1290311763137712133 …
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The Harrison Bergeron solution is not optimal here, or ever.
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I get the impression it comes from a combo of teacher unions protecting their turf, political charter school vs public school fights, religious homeschoolers not teaching their kids properly and crab bucket behavior.
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Teacher's unions have absolutely jack shit to do with this
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Educating 90% of the population to [internediate literacy or whatever reasonable standards] is a goal incompatible with allowing families to opt-out of the general education system (and thereby take their $ and votes away from educating the other 50%)
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No matter how pure the goal, when one creates a system people would rather opt-out of, the only thing left is coercion.
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That’s $20 and almost 400 pages. Can you be reasonable and restate it as an argument in less than 140 characters?
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Doing what’s best for your kid is pretty much parenting 101. If this is not one of your top priorities you are doing it wrong. I think improving opportunities for all kids is a very important problem. It’s obviously much less important to me than improving my own kid’s life.
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