tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532459317899671580.post1034578624452543592..comments2024-03-18T12:48:54.155-04:00Comments on My Planet, My Rules: Idiot Control...Matthew Notohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532459317899671580.post-85284546629451412652022-05-27T09:11:23.589-04:002022-05-27T09:11:23.589-04:00See today's rebuttal.See today's rebuttal.Matthew Notohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532459317899671580.post-61177148214983071712022-05-27T08:59:18.878-04:002022-05-27T08:59:18.878-04:00That's all nice and good. And it leaves out t...That's all nice and good. And it leaves out the other variable that I've seen destroy "distance learning".<br /><br />Incompetent parents. The same exact kinds of parents that create school shooters. I have friends that are teachers in the system, and friends with kids in the system and they all say the same thing - many kids do not stay engaged when they are not in a controlled environment.<br /><br />I've been in tech my whole life. I do not believe for a second that tech has an answer to education, rather I think education (especially primary education) has gotten significantly worse as a result of technology.<br /><br />There are more problems with the current situation than we're going to solve in your comment section, but I think the very first thing that needs to be done away with is the federal Department of Education. After that, ALL teachers' unions must be destroyed with prejudice and teachers never allowed to unionize again.<br /><br />Then we can talk about rolling back the current system of teacher education where we wind up with subjects being taught by teachers who haven't the first notion of what it is they are teaching.<br /><br />Maybe you're right about remote learning. I'm doubtful, especially for the youngest of children. But literally none of what you would like to see comes without the gutting of Leviathan. And I don't see that happening in my lifetime.<br /><br />-brianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532459317899671580.post-53934440698314236372022-05-26T22:40:38.500-04:002022-05-26T22:40:38.500-04:00Children can -- and do -- learn with Distance Lear...Children can -- and do -- learn with Distance Learning, Brian. I've undertaken enough of these projects in private business to know that it works -- so long as you don't leave the job up to the same unionized, bureaucratic morons who currently control the public school systems. <br /><br />If the last two years have proved anything, it is that leaving an ad hoc distance learning program in the hands of people who are as incompetent and corrupt as the ones who currently make up the inefficient, expensive and utterly craptastic system we already have only produces WORSE results.Matthew Notohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532459317899671580.post-82644927542099935312022-05-26T22:34:20.714-04:002022-05-26T22:34:20.714-04:00Go back and read it again, Brian. You've misse...Go back and read it again, Brian. You've missed this part:<br /><br />"The brick-and-mortar school is an anachronism, like horse-drawn carriages, hoop skirts, and Bernie Sanders, that likewise serves no useful purpose -- no one is being truly educated; money is being spent in enormous sums for no good return on investment; and the school and it's policies constitute as great a threat as a shooter -- and is no longer needed. Just as technology has provided the Modern Day Einsatzgruppen of One with sophisticated tools of destruction, it also provides a replacement for the government-run Enstupidation Center of Death.<br /><br />Modern computing and communications make it possible for millions to attend class online from someplace else. It makes it possible for everyone to have access to the same textbooks, the same libraries. It makes it possible for a single teacher to reach hundreds of students, simultaneously, several times a day, instead of a few dozen at a time in a condensed time frame. Students and parents can choose their curriculum. Students can learn at their own pace; the better students can take as many classes a day as they wish, the slower ones can spend more time repeating a class until they get it, or better yet, if they can't find an instructor who reaches them, have the option to try another. You can take your online school with you wherever you go and can get a Wi-Fi signal, even while on vacation. You can attend school all year round, if you'd like. You don't have to miss a day of school due to illness, a doctor's appointment, or a holiday. You can replay a favorite lesson or lecture any time you'd like to."<br /><br />I am a true believer when it comes to alternatives to government-run public schools.Matthew Notohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08881509233809999186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8532459317899671580.post-74040883067817134452022-05-26T20:35:59.280-04:002022-05-26T20:35:59.280-04:00Just read the essay from 2018, and at least one of...Just read the essay from 2018, and at least one of your contentions has been proven false -- that children can learn just as effectively from online tuition as they can from in-person.<br /><br />While government schools are a hotbed of dumbfuck and problems galore, the solution to the immediate problem is to have a sufficient number of responsible adults capable of meting out instant justice at 1,300 fps such that the lunatic fringe does the calculation and realizes (like one Isla Vista shooter who shall remain nameless) that the body count he seeks won't happen because the body count will be one: him (and it's almost always a him).<br /><br />-brianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com