school reform
Brooks, David. (2024, Nov. 14).
How the Ivy League Broke America.
The Atlantic. Online: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/.
The above article was given to me for free, for some reason; usually
Atlantic articles are behind a paywall.
In my opinion school reform is a necessity and this article addresses the problem squarely. It is clear that education has failed and that the system has set up a distrust of the educated people that we were counting on. Need I say more? The article is good in identifying the problem and giving some concrete solutions. It's a start.
This is a topic that is close to my heart, having worked in academia most of my life. I now find that my special-education kids, the remaining ones, are underserved or failed by the modern schools, and it's not really the schools' fault. Teachers are the saints they've always been. Something (besides the pandemic) has gone wrong, very wrong, and we need help.
Labels: school reform
whoa
I've been uncharacteristically silent about the stunning election results, and this will probably be the last and only thing I'll say about them. In general, although most of my friends are wailing and gnashing their teeth, I don't feel like jumping in.
Yes I'm disappointed and angry about the results. I'm angry at my fellow countrymen for betraying democracy and the free world for whatever reasons they had. My guess is 1) racism and sexism (just didn't want a woman boss), 2) blaming Biden/Harris for big inflation during difficult times, and 3) endless wars that seem to be our responsibility. Actually strike off #3, people don't care about Ukraine or Gaza. But make #1 into two reasons, as they're both good enough for her to lose the South & Appalachia.
There is one winner, and that is the system itself, which worked well; all the votes were counted fairly, the dems didn't shout "cheating cheating!" or run for their lawyers; people counted votes as they were supposed to. All of this to me just shows that he was a big liar to claim the 2020 one was "rigged" as there was never any evidence of that. His attacks on the counting system, not to mention the courts and the post office, were all unfounded.
