BeccaFascists need pliable people in power, but pliable people don't do logic, reasoning, or critical thinking, all of which are necessary for maintaining a government and a military.
It's a self-defeating ideology that murders millions while we get it out of our systems... yet again. Can we NOT?
atramblerWe need an effective #education system with:
rigorous protections against being dismantled, as a right,
public schools only, no private ones, not even uni,
compulsory primary education,
free à la carte secondary education without enrollment barriers,
an absolute ban on the espousement of any non-secular, non-scientific doctrine
Oh and PAY THE FUCKING TEACHERS. Pay them like our best engineer, because THEY PRODUCE THEM.
It's the goose laying the golden eggs, people. Not the golden eggs.
Daniel M. Reck@bweller I agree with everything you say with one tweak.
There isn't an *inherent* problem with private educational institutions, especially in #HigherEd. Indeed, a fair amount of our scientific research is conducted at private universities as much as it is at public land grants.
What I would support is that any private institution receiving tax dollars is required to conform to the same #education standards as its public peers if they want to receive that public support.
@DanielMReck That's a good suggestion. I'd also add that knowledge of which school someone went to prejudices hiring to such an extent that we should consider banning anything except standardized course codes on CVs/job applications/resumes or something like that, so the only information available to a hiring manager is, "does this person know the thing?"
@bweller All the public and private institutions I've been involved in here in the Midwest have extremely strict hiring protocols. They are by no means perfect but they are designed to try to focus on actual qualifications.
My current institution even removed *preferred* qualifications from job listings because it discouraged highly qualified people from applying. We want to consider everyone who is well qualified.
A lot of #HigherEd hiring is done with committees, rather than single managers.
@DanielMReck I'm referring to hiring in industry primarily. Where going to the "rich person school" is a primary way inequity is perpetuated.
Then you see a lower grade of it as requirements for absurd amounts of experience, which gets ignored for "the right candidate".
https://yscouts.com/where-did-fortune-500-ceos-go-to-college/
harvard private, stanford private, UPenn private, MIT private, Cornell private
@bweller Got it. Yes, private hiring is all over the place.
One manager at a big engineering firm wanted to enforce an extremely high minimum GPA to even consider entry-level engineer applicants. Then it was pointed out that most of the outstanding team they led at the time wouldn't have qualified.
Focusing on rational metrics is good, but we do have to be very careful not to use those same metrics to kneecap well qualified individuals. HR is shockingly hard to manage well.
@bweller Even if we really did want to ban private schools, the First Amendment protections for peaceful assembly and free association would make it extremely difficult to enact such a ban.
But it probably would pass muster to place requirements on any school receiving public tax dollars, as long as it applies equally to every school.