tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post5959787770736820691..comments2024-03-19T08:09:22.326-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Education ModelAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-51285328522240337112014-03-26T23:10:07.576-04:002014-03-26T23:10:07.576-04:00On reflection, I think a hard look at high-school ...On reflection, I think a hard look at high-school education is in order too.<br />I was going to say multiple tracks, with more training and integration into the workforce (apprentice?) for some tracks--but it occurs to me that if we persist in importing cheap labor there's not a lot of point in training our kids to be able to work.<br />But if we pretend that we've solved that problem, then we have to define what a citizen's minimal education consists of--and the Common Core sturm und drang suggests that might not be altogether trivial.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22518267181396251722014-03-26T13:00:07.712-04:002014-03-26T13:00:07.712-04:00I think in the Koresh and Weaver examples part of ...I think in the Koresh and Weaver examples part of what's going on is that the Feds thought these people were such unsympathetic targets that they could be particularly careless about preserving appearances. It's like the industrial-scale killing of civilians in WWII air raids: people who are bugged by enormous air raids on cities aren't perversely picking unsympathetic Nazi or expansionist Japanese targets to get upset about. Instead there is a causal connection between the particularly unsympathetic targets and the historical choice to unapologetically target lots of civilians who were ruled by those targets.William Newmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14336821309402794016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65351809272738650662014-03-25T22:54:47.970-04:002014-03-25T22:54:47.970-04:00Reading law<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_law" rel="nofollow">Reading law</a>jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com