</div>Having control of your own data is valuable and the cloud just encourages us to give up our privacy and autonomy for convenience and security theater.
1. Years ago I read a "final set of tweets" from a beloved author in Japan, and even though the dude was in his 90s and in the hospital, he refused to stay in pajamas all the time, and insisted on getting up and getting dressed every day. This for some reason made me realize that being in PJs all day makes me feel bizarrely icky too. All that to say, even if I'm staying home, I typically don't like wearing my PJs all day. 2. I've never been into breakfast and breakfast foods the way others are, heck, probably 75% of the time I don't eat a "traditional" breakfast at all. I just don't care for most breakfast foods, at most they are "good," which means they aren't worth wasting calories on. Yet so many people begged restaurants for " all day breakfast" menus and such, and it perplexed me personally.
The No Child Left Behind law actually had good aspects and some good results. It drew attention to "failing schools" and "marginalized students" who had long been neglected, it tried to hold schools accountable for letting kids just fail, it provided money to struggling schools, it scrutinized school structures, it provided an attempt at a more centralized curriculum, etc. In the end, it was VERY much a Monkey's Paw situation, but to say it was "all bad" is inaccurate IMO.
The No Child Left Behind law actually had good aspects and some good results. It drew attention to "failing schools" and "marginalized students" who had long been neglected, it tried to hold schools accountable for letting kids just fail, it provided money to struggling schools, it scrutinized school structures, it provided an attempt at a more centralized curriculum, etc. In the end, it was VERY much a Monkey's Paw situation, but to say it was "all bad" is inaccurate IMO.
When was that? My teacher failed me on purpose and didn't seem to get any repricussion. The cunt made zero effort and refused me extra credit.
I'm nothing but a mass of concrete yet my heart is calling my name
</div>Like I said, it was a "monkey's paw" situation. Before that, there were the "ghetto schools" and "country folk rural schools," and no one really bothered to care that entire classes of students were leaving school without any skills, if not dropping out entirely without any ability to support themselves. They were just the "bad students," even if they weren't actually bad, just ignored and neglected and discriminated against. But after NCLB, way more attention was paid to these schools and students, and a lot more schools got more funding to help these students. I saw it myself, since I have an education degree and worked in education. I saw schools able to afford reading coaches, tutors, after-school programs, parapros, language coordinators, etc. Were some of these "fluff admin" jobs designed to look good first and help second? I mean, yeah, but just as many of these people CARED about their students and helping them learn valuable life skills. There wasn't a lot of that prior to NCLB.
NCLB was early 00s, and was very much a bipartisan effort, which many people seem to forget. But the "ideas" of it were sown in the 60s with the Soviet scare and MUCH more significantly, in the 80s with "Why Johnny Can't Read." Again, I'm not saying NLCB was great, I wouldn't even say it was necessarily good, I'm just saying that its impact is more mixed than anything else.
</div>Like I said, it was a "monkey's paw" situation. Before that, there were the "ghetto schools" and "country folk rural schools," and no one really bothered to care that entire classes of students were leaving school without any skills, if not dropping out entirely without any ability to support themselves. They were just the "bad students," even if they weren't actually bad, just ignored and neglected and discriminated against. But after NCLB, way more attention was paid to these schools and students, and a lot more schools got more funding to help these students. I saw it myself, since I have an education degree and worked in education. I saw schools able to afford reading coaches, tutors, after-school programs, parapros, language coordinators, etc. Were some of these "fluff admin" jobs designed to look good first and help second? I mean, yeah, but just as many of these people CARED about their students and helping them learn valuable life skills. There wasn't a lot of that prior to NCLB.
NCLB was early 00s, and was very much a bipartisan effort, which many people seem to forget. But the "ideas" of it were sown in the 60s with the Soviet scare and MUCH more significantly, in the 80s with "Why Johnny Can't Read." Again, I'm not saying NLCB was great, I wouldn't even say it was necessarily good, I'm just saying that its impact is more mixed than anything else.
Oh okay, thanks. I was born in 2002 so after this was established.
I'm nothing but a mass of concrete yet my heart is calling my name
The No Child Left Behind law actually had good aspects and some good results. It drew attention to "failing schools" and "marginalized students" who had long been neglected, it tried to hold schools accountable for letting kids just fail, it provided money to struggling schools, it scrutinized school structures, it provided an attempt at a more centralized curriculum, etc. In the end, it was VERY much a Monkey's Paw situation, but to say it was "all bad" is inaccurate IMO.
When was that? My teacher failed me on purpose and didn't seem to get any repricussion. The cunt made zero effort and refused me extra credit.
Heyyyy. I know it's not one of our censored words, but maybe don't refer to your teacher as a cunt? Feels like a lot.
people are really really really really blind to marketing tactics, especially in this day and age
It's insidious for sure. I don't trust a tiktoker telling me to "run to Target." At first I thought "oh its a meme saying" and then I realized "why are a lot of tiktoks so obsessed with material items." Really, it's to the point that I have to ask myself if I really want an item that's being shown to me, or if something else is going on.
people are really really really really blind to marketing tactics, especially in this day and age
It's insidious for sure. I don't trust a tiktoker telling me to "run to Target." At first I thought "oh its a meme saying" and then I realized "why are a lot of tiktoks so obsessed with material items." Really, it's to the point that I have to ask myself if I really want an item that's being shown to me, or if something else is going on.
This is what I have been thinking. There's been so many things advertised to me and I wonder if they're actually all that, or the brands just really want publicity for people's money. Consumerism in general is just really confusing to me.
The sponsors in a YouTuber's video comes to mind the most, considering a lot of the brands aren't... really all that great. Shane McGillicuddy makes really great videos exposing these brands that rely on YouTube sponsorships.
