HobbitFoot @ HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club

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Which of their product lines could turn dev time into money?

Which makes it work really well for stealth layoffs. If you don't have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, you either have to show up or the company has a reason for firing you.

And if you do have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, they now have the ability to recind that offer if performance drops.

Probably ~20%.

It would be higher if you removed "thriving" from the list.

Any hill that makes Trump look bad is a hill to die on.

It depends on how many Republican donors send their kids to public school.

There's also a "magnet" school [...] in the county seat that seems to only be useful for draining off the non-sports smart kids.

It has been shown that there are benefits to the smart kids to separate them into a different curriculum. Grade skipping has problems as it pushes kids into social situations they meet not be equipped to handle. By creating different tracks, you can have some students take more rigours courses which actually challenge them and so kids can learn the soft skills they wouldn't learn with an easier curriculum. I've seen some high schools where you can basically graduate with a year's worth of college credits.

Which if you didn't know is a way to drain funding from "under performing", i.e., poor, usually minority, schools.

And I would agree that is part of the problem as expressed in the article. Most states are preserving or increasing the teaching quality for high performing students while absolutely collapsing funding for under performing students.

No. But I am asking how food preserved or maintained through a diaspora culture would be classified.

Maybe not the truest form of meditation, but I enjoy the gradual awakening via lucid dreaming.

My problem with picking a cuisine is what that means.

It has become a gripe amongst Italian-Americans where I live that their cuisine isn't considered to be Italian because Italy has changed in a different direction from their traditional cooking. The Italian-Americans can trace some recipes and practices to those who just got off the boat, but those practices don't reflect modern Italian cuisine.

I'd probably pick Italian as one of my cuisines, but I don't know if my practices would match the current cooking practices from the nation-state of Italy.

What you're advocating for is a system where we destroy the self-esteem of most students by telling them they're failures because they're not cut out for academia.

I'm not. It was a common occurrence in my time in college; my college had a 20% failure rate when I went there. Previous generations saw a failure rate closer to 33%. If anything, the fault rate has gone down since I've earned my degree.

Even then, it was generally accepted by those in college that those who flunked out weren't bad people, they were just not ready for college at that point in their lives. I've got several friends who dropped out of college but built decent careers that didn't need a college degree but was still skilled labor. With that, they still did well in high school and could transfer that body of knowledge to their current careers.

I never said that a college degree was a requirement for success, but that a dramatic loss in high school aptitude was concerning.

You don't seem like someone who has much world experience, so I suggest you get out there and see ways of life different from your own.

Is that you reading through my comment history and trying to understand my life, or you over personalizing my reaction to a topic that is a sore spot for you and you dumping your trauma on my comment? Because, in my world experience, people who describe the world in the manner that you are trying to do are trying to make their experience the default experience when it may not be.

Your trauma may not be the default in life.

There are a lot of skilled labor and some professions dealing with a massive labor shortage currently. Having an education system designed which could funnel kids into these fields would be very beneficial for them and society at large.

But we aren't.

And we aren't forcing them to study harder. We are letting them fail and we have the metrics to show how we are letting them fail. Does that make you feel better that we are letting people fail? That seems to be what you're advocating for.

If anything, people are starting to wake up to what a waste of time and effort school is for the vast majority of students that are forced to attend.

For a generation, it had a major impact on earnings for Americans. Even with the expense of college, there was a major differential in earnings between college and skilled trades.

Even now, the current education system doesn't push people into skilled trades. It just lets them fail.

But hey, it makes you feel good so I guess that counts for something.

Why would this make me feel good? Identifying something happening doesn't bring me joy.

Yeah, if.

It is deliberate.

As the article pointed out, the top 10% of students aren't seeing major drops, it is mainly in the bottom marginal students who need more institutional help to get a better education.

If we're deporting all these immigrants, the country is going to need a new underclass.

Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?

I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.

It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.

I don't.

I wonder how long Ethiopia will take to fill the dam.

They're paying for the Star Wars IP.

It is only in a death spiral because of Pennsyltuky politicians making it an issue.