Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸

Highlighting failures of government

Trad Husband and father of 3

I try not to judge, but sometimes I judge, especially if you're an idiot

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

Climate Change is the "do it all" emergency.

Too hot? - Climate Change
Too cold? - Climate Change
Too dry? - Climate Change
Too wet? - Climate Change
Just right? - Probably Climate Change

Don't think for a minute they won't use this "emergency" to take your freedoms.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@JamesHohman Thanks.

Do you think it's primarily because the increased spending is "wasted" on non-productive things, or something else?

Do you think if they hired teachers and shrunk class sizes they might actually see test scores improve?

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@KingKC_916 I may have had more people watching my high school games, and we were terrible.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@ThunderParley Insanity.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

My lord... these people exist. And they are teaching college classes. At Michigan.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

I think this woman was designed in a lab to troll us.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@RobSmith_Munich Academia is insane.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@visegrad24 Independence Day is a conservative event? Y'all are retarded.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@Cwharrisontx @Ravious101 Yes, this is insane.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@Wyndle Yes, of course it does, but at least in this case it's the same test across one state.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

I hear it frequently said, especially from the left, that if we just spend more on schools we will get better student performance.

I had Claude analyze Michigan student standardized test (MSTEP) results across it's school districts and plotted against district per pupil spending.

If anything, there is a weak negative correlation, meaning that the more a district spends, the worse the performance. (This is likely due to higher poverty districts like in Detroit spending more.)

If you remove charter schools (second set of graphs) the negative correlation gets slightly stronger.

It ain't the money, folks.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@wotfreak1983 @forfun_jus35667 A related example.
https://t.co/omIAxwnwgf

[AyeAye 📝 🐒 @AyeAyeAsk]

@Aurondarklord It’s to this day. I mapped out the winners and you can tell the year they changed the rules.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

So much of the discourse around trying to get more boys to read books is women like this saying boys just need to be more like girls.

This is sadly what much of our education system has become, as well.

Progressive, feminist teachers who believe that boys are essentially defective girls.

[Danni @DanniBrener]

Reading fiction teaches children empathy. The idea that people think boys CAN’T empathize with women (or read their writing) is actually a reason to encourage them to read more literature by and about women.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

This is a complete embarrassment - and this woman appears to be a narcissistic sociopath who just wants to perform for her class.

@umich, how are these people being allowed to teach?

[Ravious101 🦅🇺🇸 @Ravious101]

I can’t even believe what I just watched!
A student at the University of Michigan recorded his online lecture, and people are actually paying tens of thousands of dollars in tuition for this. The lecturer, Dr. Laura Yakas who teaches a course called "Engaging Social Justice, Diversity, and Oppression in Social Work" is literally singing songs in class trashing America!
When parents and taxpayers say our universities have turned into ideological indoctrination camps instead of places of real education, this is exactly what they’re talking about. Students are going into massive debt to learn actual skills, not to sit through anti-American musical performances.
How is this acceptable at a major public university?

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@heathroi LOL, saw that!

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@comediacity Yup

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

At least at one point a college degree was a decent proxy for someone's intelligence, but the constant lowering of testing and academic standards throughout our educational system has virtually eliminated that as well.

Because it's technically illegal for companies to give IQ tests, it makes it even tougher to evaluate candidates for entry level positions.

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

This is one of my favorite @ComicDaveSmith clips in a long time, and it's something we should absolutely be talking about more:

Academia is a Ponzi scheme and a gov't welfare program that primarily serves to start kids' adult lives off in debt.

"If Thomas Sowell's or FA Hayek's economics were followed, all of academia is put out of business. So, shocking that academia hasn't valued them as being really intelligent thinkers. It's directly against their incentives."

"Academia is entirely a government program. It's completely artificial. There's no market demand for it...Student loans is a government program....Pick an 18 year-old and walk into a bank and say, 'I want a $200,000 loan,' but for a business, for a house...you'll get laughed out of the bank."

"It's unbelievable there's not one college professor who feels a moral obligation on day one to go, 'Hey, I'm teaching you environmental studies, and they're charging you 200 grand for this degree; you should really think about whether this is worth it.'"

"College is a multi-trillion dollar program. Where did we take that from? Who did we take that from? What else might we have had if we hadn't done this?"

"You've got your kids all going into debt on essentially a welfare program, but who gets the welfare? Not even the kids. The kids just get the debt."

On a personal note, I spent six years in higher education. I got a Masters in Computer Science (CS) from one of the best CS schools in the country. It did not take long once I got out into the real world to see how much more impressive programmers are just in the games industry than in academia. All of CS is just chasing private industry and trying to teach their students what those people accomplished.

• Unix and C++ were invented at Bell Labs
• Java was invented at Sun Microsystems
• The GUI was developed at Xerox and put into mass production by Apple
• Every single tier 1 ISP that laid the cables to make the internet as you know it possible are private sector businesses

I was even studying AI in grad school, and of course the AI breakthrough came out of the private sector when academia was busy fiddling around with dead-end tech demos that would never pass the Turing Test.

College is an outdated model from time when that was where you went to find all the books. Government student loan programs need to be ended NOW, and if you're someone who takes part in the hiring process at your company, do what I did and encourage your company to remove college degrees as a prerequisite for applying. This madness must stop. It's turning all of our kids into socialists because they blame the failures of this system on capitalism because that's what their Marxist college professors who've never worked in the real world told them to blame it on.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

“Men just need to be better authors.”

This is insane, and a perfect example of the feminization and queerification of everything.

[AyeAye 📝 🐒 @AyeAyeAsk]

@Aurondarklord It’s to this day. I mapped out the winners and you can tell the year they changed the rules.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@KoreaPistonsFan I have eaten there many times… very close to my office.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@wotfreak1983 To be fair we’ve both done that in this conversation…

Best of luck to you.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@7MamaBears Not sure the data has that level of detail.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@parella_anthony Directly from the state of Michigan’s own data.

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

@BridgeMichigan Meh.
https://t.co/u7o9ifB4IK

[Kevin - Classical Liberal 🇺🇸 @gov_fails]

I hear it frequently said, especially from the left, that if we just spend more on schools we will get better student performance.

I had Claude analyze Michigan student standardized test (MSTEP) results across it's school districts and plotted against district per pupil spending.

If anything, there is a weak negative correlation, meaning that the more a district spends, the worse the performance. (This is likely due to higher poverty districts like in Detroit spending more.)

If you remove charter schools (second set of graphs) the negative correlation gets slightly stronger.

It ain't the money, folks.

[A Cerbic @a_cerbic]

Thinking you can get boys to empathize with women by forcing them to read chick-lit is like thinking you can get dogs to turn vegan by forcing them to eat carrots. You'll just end up making them hate your guts.