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@CasPiancey @Alice_comfy I was a little before that. IQ wasn't the only gate to entrance where I went to school, skipping grades in subjects where it was allowed and being bored where also triggers. tbh the system works great where class sizes are small enough to detect candidates and there r many suchPermalink On twitter.com
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@CasPiancey @Alice_comfy kids. but what it works FOR should be recalibrate cuz as the histogram shows it doesn't correlate to career prospects or anything, it just lowers the rate of bullying and boredom experienced by the delicate flowers. i.e. gifted programs don't produce geniuses just happier nerdsOn twitter.com
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@CasPiancey @Alice_comfy and honestly that's ok i love that for us all. the idea that school's function is to find and train captains of capitalist industry was made up by selfserving fascists forming a new ruling class (leland stanford, herbie hoover) and became dogma only because it's useful to empire.Permalink On twitter.com
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@CasPiancey @Alice_comfy honestly twitter is kind of a hypercapitalist echo chamber and getting worse, so it feels odd to discuss holistic or nonlinear/nonzerosum pedagogy here in the metrics thunderdome. but yeah it's alive and well everywhere except middleclass americaPermalink On twitter.com