RE: Fucking Cops: Volume II
November 1, 2015 at 8:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2015 at 8:43 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
And that all sounds great, Min, except it's yet another "KIDS TODAY!!!" idyllic argument that doesn't fully bear the weight of scrutiny.
Dropout rates are lower than ever. College attendance is higher than ever (whether or not that's a good thing is another question, and I think I'm on your side on that one). Turns out all that did was make it so that you can't get a job almost anywhere unless you have a BSc, anymore.
The fact that some schools perform less-well than others, given the same social variables, and can be improved through administrative remedies, suggests that there is something potentially at-fault with the school when its children are not learning well. Is it also partly due to the home or culture in which those children are raised? Are there socioeconomic issues at play here as well? Certainly! But to say that we must blame the children and not the schools/teachers is to say that either some children are inherently faulty, in neighborhood/town clusters, while others (almost always in better socioeconomic situations and/or tax-bases, here in the USA), while the school is nearly irrelevant in how it approaches the education process (or else absolved of wrongdoing, under the idea that the kids just need to try harder).
I'm sorry, but I just don't buy "kids, today!" arguments, any more than I buy the "this generation has no morals, like mine did!" arguments.
Edit to Add: My mother was a teacher for over a decade and a half, before going back to get her PhD and becoming a professor, a job she continues to this day. So I'm not anti-teacher or anti-school, nor am I speaking entirely out of my ass when I talk about the educational environment!
Dropout rates are lower than ever. College attendance is higher than ever (whether or not that's a good thing is another question, and I think I'm on your side on that one). Turns out all that did was make it so that you can't get a job almost anywhere unless you have a BSc, anymore.
The fact that some schools perform less-well than others, given the same social variables, and can be improved through administrative remedies, suggests that there is something potentially at-fault with the school when its children are not learning well. Is it also partly due to the home or culture in which those children are raised? Are there socioeconomic issues at play here as well? Certainly! But to say that we must blame the children and not the schools/teachers is to say that either some children are inherently faulty, in neighborhood/town clusters, while others (almost always in better socioeconomic situations and/or tax-bases, here in the USA), while the school is nearly irrelevant in how it approaches the education process (or else absolved of wrongdoing, under the idea that the kids just need to try harder).
I'm sorry, but I just don't buy "kids, today!" arguments, any more than I buy the "this generation has no morals, like mine did!" arguments.
Edit to Add: My mother was a teacher for over a decade and a half, before going back to get her PhD and becoming a professor, a job she continues to this day. So I'm not anti-teacher or anti-school, nor am I speaking entirely out of my ass when I talk about the educational environment!
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.