The books will be withheld until academic performance improves.same backwards insanity as No Child Left Behind;
“We will penalize the under-performing schools by taking their funding and giving it to the schools that are already performing well. This will improve the situation, trust us.”
“We will penalize the under-performing schools by taking their funding and giving it to the schools that are already performing well. This will improve the situation, trust us.”
“Uhh, let me do the above, but make it worse by tying it even more to the standardized test industry which incentivizes making kids give up and fail because that means even more privatization.”
:the-republican: new, horrible and unpopular policy
:the-democrat: horrible and unpopular policy, expanded and refined, given the rubber stamp of ‘progressive’ legitimacy
This Reddit post yesterday is an example of this. Instead of just legalizing weed, there has to be this whole “review process” spectacle to prove how measured and reasonable the Democrats are. It’s just fucking weed man, it wasn’t a problem before it was criminalized and it still isn’t. Stop giving the question legitimacy with these sober analyses.
I wonder what material conditions could be affecting children in Texas so much that it could affect their performance?
have you tried studying after being shot in the head? it’s tough
Lazy ass student won’t get off the floor and clean up the mess after being shot only 27 times. The entitlement is unbelievable. “I should be transported to the hospital by OTHER people.” Must be the avocado toast
I heard a boomer talk about how easy kids have it these days. These people need to shut the fuck up.
Kids now have it so fucking hard. They’re watching people get murdered in HD, including other kids, because you can’t scrub that completely off of the internet. They’re still watching loved ones get sick and die from a once-manageable virus after having spent years of school on Zoom. They’re witnessing the devastation of climate change. They’re facing a future that seems to be growing bleaker by the day.
In short, they’re forced to reap what previous generations have sown. Adults who claimed to care about the well-being of children stole their future for profit and kicked out the ladder, knowing full well they won’t have to see the worst of what they set into motion. But yeah, kids these days have it easy because they have phones and physical abuse is slightly regulated.
ah yes, the correct response to poor academic performance, plan B so to speak: work day camps
Amerikkkan Kiddy Koncentration Kamps
hey why does every adult with power in this country just fucking hate children? what’s up with that?
In Stalinist North Maoist China they force the undesirables… look I can’t even do this. Fuck Texas and fuck the USA for enabling Texas.
The raging hate-boner that
has for children and the fetish that they have for “disciplining” children chills my blood and speaks of their hidden pathology. 
George Lakoff, an important linguist and cognitive scientist, wrote an interesting take on this in his book Moral Politics. Basically, the “strict father” model of language and communicating actions – and eventually doing them – really speaks to the ideals of their generation: “moral strength” and “moral obedience” being the biggest ones where weakness of any sort is immoral. Rewards and punishments are what keep this morality going, so failure to uphold this sense of morality – here doing your homework and getting good grades – needs punishment.
Carried into the political realm, this moral system – which puts strength at the top of the list of values – leads to the belief that “your poverty or your drug habit or your illegitimate children can be explained only as moral weakness, and any discussion of social causes cannot be relevant,” Lakoff explained.
He’s not a marxist, so I’d take some of the political conclusions with a grain of salt, but he knows how people interpret and use metaphor to navigate language and existence (His co-written book Metaphors to Live By is widely used in linguistics and cognitive studies).
Carried into the political realm, this moral system – which puts strength at the top of the list of values – leads to the belief that “your poverty or your drug habit or your illegitimate children can be explained only as moral weakness, and any discussion of social causes cannot be relevant,”
Calvinism. Not even once.
Find the policy psychos responsible and [redacted… Like really fucking redacted]. Sooner or later there’s going to be some kids who “graduate” from said system with nothing to lose… Maybe with all the easy access to [redacted] and it’ll eventually sort itself out. The free marketplace of ideas is such a bastion of innovation.
I am hereby calling on Joe Brandon and the Demoncrat party to drone strike every Republican the second they leave the country.
