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[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@eldermullenial Progressive craziness is why you have 8 IEPs and 7 504s.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@OnionBro417 @pitdesi Here is the school she is talking about. There’s a reason she switched away from the specific.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@lola_danger1 @josephjconnor @pitdesi Yes the specific school she is talking about was funded at over $50,000 per pupil. Funding was absolutely not the problem at the school in question.

[rustbeltjacobin 🌹 @rustbeltjacobin]

Many have heard of the phonics debacle and vaguely know that the K12 school world gets into bizarre, destructive fads very easily. The 2 worst, for my money, currently are

-elementary math teaching

-ending the enforcement of behavior standards through consequences

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@CrotserJeremiah There are countermeasures (strict discipline and frequent testing) but we choose not to do them.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@cydonia0 @thomaschattwill Almost certainly could not have fired that many bad teachers.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@jheymoux @tracewoodgrains @mathillustrated Of course they were in fact much better behaved, the last sentence is silly.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@SeanTrende There’s a line, and if you can convince 95% of people that whatever your pet project is gets that, fine. The 2 real world problems is they were trying to do that with like 20% buy in, or grossly misusing labels (Eg calling everything white supremacist)

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@tracewoodgrains @Lib_Development One way of explaining it in EA language there are nearly infinite pascal mugging arguments, what is the expected value of having to dismantle each one individually rather than suggesting that having a heuristic against them leads to clearer advances in thinking?

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@tracewoodgrains @Lib_Development Right, EA longtermists especially multiply everything by arbitrarily huge numbers and takes very long time horizons. There are lots of places for subtle bias, or just incorrect estimation to throw a wrench in things.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@himbopresident Right, she blames ‘segregation’ but repeatedly shows that the problem is her daughter never faced a test to see how she was coming along until the 8th grade algebra test. Standardized testing is how we monitor!

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@Based_Atheist In this case the answer appears to be: she was not actually being taught at the bad school and she learned just fine at the good school *when they were actually measuring her endpoints*.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@FewsOrange @hiredbygod @nhannahjones @thomaschattwill She didn’t like testing in NCLB either. She certainly isn’t opposing the progressive push against testing. If we are *super* generous she might be a parallel to the NIMBY who claims to like building but always finds a reason to oppose *this* building.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@herandrews It’s an interesting class over race analysis that seems to go against a host of her public positions.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@LinkofSunshine The thing I didn’t understand was how she talks about the preeminent importance of desegregation but didn’t want to send her (Black) daughter to a white school. It hints at a class over race analysis that has been the opposite of her public focus.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@Danishova @thomaschattwill The initial article reads like a believer of the Christian Science sect explaining why they won’t let their kid have a blood transfusion.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@tracewoodgrains It’s frustrating, because she still seems resistant to standardized testing *which her daughter needed earlier to reveal the deficits*. The progressive turn against measuring things to avoid seeing things is so damaging. But you’re right, her wrestling with it at all is good.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@TwoQuoque @johnwcbragg @SeanTrende It wasn’t known that she was going to be failing algebra at the time of admission.

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@nhannahjones @thomaschattwill It would be great for a progressive New Yorker to resist the abandonment of the Regents tests. I would exhort you to consider doing that if you are not against standardized tests!

[Sebastian @Sebastian_Holsc]

@olivertraldi @thomaschattwill It’s fascinating how the only thing which revealed her daughter wasn’t doing as well as she thought was the standardized algebra test. And if she had forced her daughter to keep up the plan, the algebra deficiencies wouldn’t have been otherwise discovered in high school either