Ms. Connor, I’m a little confused by your statement that racial biases are not a part of my argument. My argument is that correlation is not causation. More exactly, weak correlation is no basis for jumping to wild claims of causation. Public schools have not been a solution to problems, including racial bias and discrimination. That bia…
Ms. Connor, I’m a little confused by your statement that racial biases are not a part of my argument. My argument is that correlation is not causation. More exactly, weak correlation is no basis for jumping to wild claims of causation. Public schools have not been a solution to problems, including racial bias and discrimination. That bias and discrimination have persisted by virtue of using tainted and culturally biased values and testing which utilize arbitrary measures and selective morality. They most certainly did not produce the scientific, economic, and other wonders of the past century or two, despite the subjective and anecdotal "evidence" and their propaganda and cheerleading by their own and by sentimental graduates . Racial injustice has been exacerbated in many ways by schools which sort, evaluate, discriminate, and judge students according to repugnant behavioral indices for rating and grading students.
My argument is that people, such as Thom and you continue to erroneously call public schooling “public education”. I refuse to call what they do education and even were I to go along with that misidentification for the purposes of the discussion, it is reprehensible that the damage done to a phenomenal number of students over many generations is wiped from memory and disregarded as merely the cost of teaching the majority or the lucky few some barebones skills and information. In what universe is it okay to write off a sizeable proportion of the child citizens of a country as a loss or as disposable, while the winners go on to hit the jackpot?
Lastly, defunding public schools is a travesty. Why do so many people, including thought leaders such as Thom think that the privatizers will stop and go away if they keep repeating the mantra that our schools are great and defensible, incessantly? If you want to keep public schooling, stop pretending that the schools are not bastions of conservative ideation and belief and havens for right-wing authoritarian conditioning where obedience is the primary lesson and abstraction is the primary methodology. If you want to defeat the enemies of public schooling, do what must be done to remove the justifications that reveal abject failure and egregious harm to millions of students, including the children of the white supremacist snowflakes.
Ms. Connor, I’m a little confused by your statement that racial biases are not a part of my argument. My argument is that correlation is not causation. More exactly, weak correlation is no basis for jumping to wild claims of causation. Public schools have not been a solution to problems, including racial bias and discrimination. That bias and discrimination have persisted by virtue of using tainted and culturally biased values and testing which utilize arbitrary measures and selective morality. They most certainly did not produce the scientific, economic, and other wonders of the past century or two, despite the subjective and anecdotal "evidence" and their propaganda and cheerleading by their own and by sentimental graduates . Racial injustice has been exacerbated in many ways by schools which sort, evaluate, discriminate, and judge students according to repugnant behavioral indices for rating and grading students.
My argument is that people, such as Thom and you continue to erroneously call public schooling “public education”. I refuse to call what they do education and even were I to go along with that misidentification for the purposes of the discussion, it is reprehensible that the damage done to a phenomenal number of students over many generations is wiped from memory and disregarded as merely the cost of teaching the majority or the lucky few some barebones skills and information. In what universe is it okay to write off a sizeable proportion of the child citizens of a country as a loss or as disposable, while the winners go on to hit the jackpot?
Lastly, defunding public schools is a travesty. Why do so many people, including thought leaders such as Thom think that the privatizers will stop and go away if they keep repeating the mantra that our schools are great and defensible, incessantly? If you want to keep public schooling, stop pretending that the schools are not bastions of conservative ideation and belief and havens for right-wing authoritarian conditioning where obedience is the primary lesson and abstraction is the primary methodology. If you want to defeat the enemies of public schooling, do what must be done to remove the justifications that reveal abject failure and egregious harm to millions of students, including the children of the white supremacist snowflakes.