<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Some students should have been left behind circa the 8th or 9th grade. Shunted into plumbing, carpentry, or just their choice. Not academically inclined nor academically gifted. Good money to be made in those fields. This would get rid of some parts of the bottom of the curve.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Our stupid state requires algebra to graduate from high school. Stupid. No available training for other than academic professions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Perhaps many of those uninterested are just blown away by 9th grade algebra and the like. Not dumb or stupid or just immature - bored with what they can't understand. Hard to like something you cannot understand. I think we should have a high school 'major' in retail sales. Lack of that learning may be in part responsible for all the small retail stores going under in a few years. No finance classes in high school.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">No, it's not just attitude in those failing to take advantage of online learning. Is there any plumbing there? Carpentry? (probably so - do they know that? Are they ever told that if academics don't suit them here are these other options? I doubt it.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 1:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4057609191122797695WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> school ideas, was: RE: [ExI] next county<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>>…We rigged up some cameras which follow motion…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…So we will get really good video of whoever it was who stole the cameras…Our current baseline plan is far from perfect. Suggestions welcome…spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There’s something else I need to mention which might come into play. In any capitalist system, the average prole does better than the average prole in communism. But there is a universal observation: the rich get richer.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">In schools, as more and more online resources come available, the academically rich get richer faster than before. Perhaps we have plenty of elite and talented students present, well you remember high school. You remember how much or even most of your time was wasted waiting for the others to catch up. But they never did. How we would have soared with eagles had we the resources the young have today.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">After Mr. Musk came to town brining all those smart driven H1Bs, we have watched our local public school’s average scores march northward, oh my what a marvelous trend. Less discussed but even more dramatic: the accompanying northward charge of the standard deviation. The academically rich are getting fabulously rich, the academically poor and those who do not use the free online resources, are getting nothing, perhaps even less than they were getting before.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Online instruction is leading to increased academic polarization. It is almost like the fall of the Berlin Wall, when communism fell. There are those who argue that increased academic polarization is a bad thing, even if average scores are going up.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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