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0 pointsdfxm122y ago0 comments

Would that not utterly stratify social classes?

Yes. This is one of the outcomes the anti-school crowd is after.

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benji-york2y ago· 3 in thread

Is there a name for this tactic of projecting motivations on others in order to explain their behaviors?

Nasrudith2y ago

Theory of mind.

benji-york2y ago

I see where you were going, but I don't think Theory of Mind quite fits.

ToM says that a person understands someone else to have their own knowledge, ideas, motivations, etc. But this behavior is not simply understanding that others have their own motivations, but imputing negative motivations onto others.

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barry-cotter2y ago

Normal

guy982387102y ago· 2 in thread

Don't be so cynical. There are serious problems with schools and there's no visible progress, so many people gave up. They concluded the problems are endemic and permanent and the only way to fix them is to dissolve the schools entirely.

mrguyorama2y ago

Which is why they are pretty much universally funded by religious fundamentalists who spent their past years trying to force textbook writers to deny climate change or evolution as basic scientific facts.

This isn't disillusioned people looking to tear it all down and rebuild a wonderful new system, unless you think Betsy Devos is some sort of anarchist. These people have very specific complaints about the school system that rarely have to do with the actual problems of actual outcomes, because the people who by and large ARE getting actual bad outcomes from the public school system don't really have a voice.

guy982387102y ago

What religious fundamentalists? Maybe in the US? Where I live, schools are actually a source of aggressive religious propaganda. But the problems with schools are far wider than that they become ideological battlefields with propaganda-filled curricula. Lots of non-religious and moderate people see the problems.

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