hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Reform schools totally exist in the US, but due to incentives of the US system(that is, very high parental say) they're basically only for kids who would otherwise be in Juvie.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
Korea has a higher IQ than most of Europe. So does Japan.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
The peak homeschooling demographics do not think that their sons getting laid is very important. They may later be distressed at a lack of progress towards marriage, but it's kinda too late to change education strategies by then.
hydroacetylene
13hr ago
I'm seconding this for equivalents in the US. I don't know about conditions for bright working class Indians, I have no idea if they have a decent shot of making it into the middle class and having a decent life. I do know that truckers, nurses, teachers, tradesmen, cops, restaurant managers, accountants, paralegals, is not even scratching the surface of ways Americans can make a decent living with no rat race involved, and without exceptional talent. 'Meritocracy' in the US context mostly just makes childhoods worse.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
But everyone, including the PMC, earns more in purchasing power than they did in all but the very recent past. And 'recent past' here means like, 2014, not 1800. There is no downward pressure on salaries anywhere, it isn't redistribution of jobs driving salary increases- it's prosperity.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
Pretty big tribal difference here. Of course, the tribe which genuinely does see becoming an electrician as disappointing compared to the lower pink collar jobs which absorb excess college graduates controls the schools. Red tribe parents don't mind the idea, electrician and HVAC tech and plumber are ordinary jobs like teacher or accountant or cop, and income and personal behavior are what counts for success, not education.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
You could own a warship in 1790, you just couldn't use it for war.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I'm not sure how marijuana is supposed to be less harmful than alcohol? It's not like driving stoned is safer than driving drunk, and marijuana is also very bad for the teen brain.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I've been around homeschoolers a lot. Rad trads might have a slight IQ advantage over the general population, but it's not huge if it even is there to begin with, and getting away with a couple of hours every other day sounds about right.
hydroacetylene
17hr ago
I went to Catholic schools.
Everyone went to the same campus. Discipline was uniformly strict- although we didn't have corporal punishment at all after the sex abuse crisis and it was definitely on the way out beforehand, suspension was a real possibility that happened regularly and there was the occasional expulsion. Flip side of that, no hallpasses, and in high school you didn't even need to ask permission to go to the bathroom, because if you abused the privilege you got in trouble. There were honors and regulars classes for every core class except religious ed, with real tracking for math in the secondary grades. Starting around 10th grade finals declined in importance, I think when I graduated there was one final exam(Latin) and that's it, we had essays and projects and whatnot for everything else. It was by no means unheard of for a particular student to be on, say, the honors English/basics math track, or vice versa. Very importantly, your parents could not get you moved to a more rigorous/prestigious class, although sometimes teachers could, and you could transfer credits in from community college if you wanted. Electives existed and were unsegregated, although a few of them had pre-reqs which kept it to kids in honors in related classes. It's probably as close to what you describe as could reasonably exist.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Supreme Court did not solve segregation, multiple presidents bringing the full force of the federal government to bear on southern states did. The supreme court merely provided political cover.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The previous 'dogs trained to rape people' claims were 1) a canard repeated against Pinochet by actual literal communists who made up quite a lot of other things, although they probably were tortured in conventional ways and 2) the confessions of an insane serial killer who also definitely tortured and raped people but also claimed lots of other improbable falsehoods. So my priors from this are 'Israel is torturing prisoners but not with trained rape dogs'.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
And indeed, dogs trained to bite the groin are a thing that are widely used.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You don't have to go back to Obama to find democrats making a big show of how Christian they are- Joe Biden's mass attendance was a regular slow news day story.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Well yes, differences in school performance are almost all down to what percentage of the student body's biological parents are still married to each other. This is why both the Army and the RCC run better schools than states. Any state, including Massachusetts and Mississippi. Percentage of kids living with married biological parents edges out average household income as a predictor, edges out race as a predictor, everything else.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
You will, of course, find out that everyone gets put into college tracks, because it's easier than listening to parents complain.
Technically, you can get a non-college track high school diploma in the modern US. From a public school, of course- parents that pay for private school expect as a matter of course access to college. Admins don't want to do it, of course, but you can get one.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, the supreme court also fails to stop Colorado from bringing masterpiece cakeshop in every few years. It's not a 'gun control' issue, it's a 'stopping blue states from treading on people is very hard' problem.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This isn't really a thing the supreme court can solve. When states really want to make life harder for people, they succeed. Masterpiece cakeshop just keeps winning court cases, but it's probably cold comfort at this point.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The soviet ability to keep up with the US technologically despite ideological suppression indicates that their education system was good, yes. But modern US leftists are already rejecting everything else about the soviet system(because the system as a whole did not work).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah, but actual communist countries have very little in common with US Marxist’s recommendations. Props to them for figuring out the Soviet system didn’t work, I guess, even if they’re wrong about the whys and wherefores.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
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fighting tards is a very bad idea, regardless of the rules in place. They’re unpredictable, have hysterical strength, etc.
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thats not how it works, your kid goes to suspension for wailing on the LCD kid
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The top 20% would be educated regardless- their parents can afford private school.
The system panics when teachers aren't going to get paid, when the free daycare isn't being provided it's a big deal, job cuts are a horrible tragedy, but when the kids don't learn it's a shrug and a demand for more money- interventions to provide school lunches during the summer, even outside of the school setting, are very welcomed by the system. Interventions to educate kids better are not.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The one time I had a plumbing issue I couldn't handle, I asked for recommendations on small businesses at a plumbing supply house. High variance, but I wouldn't use google, it would spit out the same list of home services companies that spend big on advertising.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Try feeding one of my AAQC's in. I have a few obvious tells and a few high variance tendencies.
95 is well within the European average, it's higher than the Iberian peninsula for example.
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