haxboar [none/use name]

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) represented, in the United States at least, the triumph of measurable outcomes over meaningful learning. Under its regime, schools were judged by their students’ performance on standardised assessments. The consequences of poor scores were severe: funding cuts, staff dismissals, school closures. The entirely predictable result was what educators came to call “teaching to the test,” a practice in which classroom instruction was narrowed to the specific content and formats that would appear on state exams.

As someone who graduated before then, this was a problem long before NCLB. It’s also a fundamental misunderstanding about the purpose of American schools. Schools have two goals:

• Babysit kids, so that both Dad and Mom can go to work
• Train kids to do arbitrary, bullshit tasks that don’t have any meaning or purpose

Any actual learning when I went to school was tertiary, and Critical Thinking was constantly shot down. If you want an A, you don’t Think Critically, you regurgitate what you were told, even if it was wrong.

https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps-statistics/index.html

So your first thought was “Lets mock this person for bringing up a relevent historical point”?

lol, what a tool

It’s always amazing to me how libs have to constantly make up interpretations and arguments to fight against. One of the reasons I left piefed was that people kept yelling at me for saying things that I never said.

Like, I get that liberalism is openly failing right now, but maybe do some self-analysis on why that is, rather than building strawmen.

To harass PoC, and improve profits for in-airport shops

They used to do that for me. I could pop an edible, and get focused on chores for like 3-4 hours.

Then one day they started giving me mild panic-attacks, SMH

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons

Founded JPL and Aerojet He was also a Thelemite occultist