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• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll say we over expanded college in the wrong way. Turned it into a business. That greatly expanded the costs with little actual benefit.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m always deeply skeptical of this insistence that college offers “little benefit”. But I’ll happily concede that it functions as a bureaucratic hurdle, designed to favor the historically wealthy and socially entrenched over the impoverished and recently arrived.

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    • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, the added costs have little benefit.

      College itself is great. The added costs have not added to the experience.

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    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The poors can still get in if they are willing to become indebted wage slaves with a 6 figure debit for the next 20-30 years. Seems fair enough.

      Just, don’t expect to get in to a social connection generator for nepo babies, you get a state school with institutionalized alcoholism.

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In my experience I see a large part of the college degree is showing you can reliably show up and be in a state to use your brain. The knowledge you get is mostly not in classes but in the labs, most people don’t regularly do tests in work, the build things design things analyze things etc. Yes you learn some stuff in class but when you try to do it, fail, struggle, then figure out what’s wrong, correct it, and it works… That you will remember. It’s like watching a YouTube tutorial vs actually doing a task.

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can always count on Matty to not just be wrong, but to go out of his way to find the worst way to be wrong.

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  • decolo@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And you can tell he has a shit-eating smirk while he’s doing it.

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    • drahardja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because he keeps getting a paycheck doing this shit

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• arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  oh, we’re supposed to disagree with this? he’s right, and it’s Bush’s fault. because of “no child left behind” we’re letting kids who can’t read graduate high school. now, that’s not to say they should never graduate, but rather that they should have been taught to read, and not allowed to advance until they can

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The “kids aren’t literate anymore” line really runs afoul of the abysmal state of standardized testing. Case in point:

    The Pineapple And The Hare: Can You Answer Two Bizarre State Exam Questions?

    This is what we’re using to evaluate literacy in the modern day. Tests designed to confuse students and flunk classrooms, in order to justify education privatization.

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    • programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A test that is a joke with no setup and a dangling punchline. Of course, there is no way to argue for any of the options. For the company that makes the tests, there is only one correct answer.

      The actual joke is that a private company is in charge of making tests for students.

      And the correct answer is that the animals ate the pineapple because they wanted (as there is no justification for the fruit murder) and the wisest animal is the owl because they didn’t show up for this clusterfuck of a story.

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The animals are the pineapple.

      What the fuck even is that test question?

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    • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is what we’re using to evaluate literacy in the modern day.

      Hmm. I suppose it’s possible there’s some concerted effort amongst college professors to present false information about student literacy.

      Professors at top US college forced to change coursework over students struggling to read

      College Professors Warn Of A Literacy Crisis As More Gen Z Students Struggle With Reading

      Ten years into my college teaching career, students stopped being able to read effectively.

      Professors say Gen Z students can’t read, forcing colleges to lower academic standards

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  • gwulgg@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Saying “he’s right” about anything Matt Y says is disqualifying quite frankly

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