ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
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ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
10hr ago
charter schools are vastly outstripping the performance of the public educational system
Yes, because of two things:
- A parent's ability to afford sending their child to such a school is strongly correlated with the intelligence of their child, and mid-to-high human capital still benefits from competent educators
- Competent educators self-sort into charter schools and are expected to perform like it; if they don't, they're out
How the educational system can reconstruct itself around those differences I’m not too sure.
It already kind of has; we just... don't bother teaching about things any more. Too dangerous, you see.
ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
11hr ago
I'm not sure it's relevant yet
Bailouts for the education-managerial complex are always highly relevant.
In this case, bailing them out means "the government aids in forcing everyone they can into paying their salaries".
This is the primary driver for credentialism (and more recently, for handing out student visas like candy in countries with semi-private university systems). Legal requirements are a form of [corporate] welfare, it's just that corporation is a union of a large cross-section of society. And yes, it obviously robs the youth of valuable time and money to pay professors and administrators who have no business being there in the first place, just like everything else society does.
I expect other New World countries to nationalize universities as enrollment falls to enshrine the welfare program permanently.
It's rare to see the spear counterpart of "he was fucking the stepdaughter for years- so long as he keeps paying my bills, she didn't care", but it clearly does happen. Stepmother vs. son is typically a murder thing, permitted by the father, since the son is [or will be] a drain on the resources that the father pays the stepmother to stick around.
By contrast, stepfather vs. daughter is typically a rape thing, permitted by the mother, since the mother pays the stepfather in sex to stick around.
Of course, the mother seldom goes to jail in those latter cases because sexism, but still.
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