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[–] marrenia@astraea.pink 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's so much worse than just turning the libraries into prisons - they even went as far as putting cameras in the classrooms to spy on the teachers to make sure they follow mike miles' centralized learning plans and to dock their pay if they aren't ...

[–] epsilonneighbor@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, we’ll probably be losing many more good teachers over this. It all feels so broken.

[–] yip-bonk@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It definitely is. This is just watching what happens when republiQans blow up your society (in this case: schools).

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

They haven't installed the telescreens yet, have they? Gotta get those two minutes of hate.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm sure those cameras won't immediately be vandalized by students.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These policies will fail, but I doubt they’ll change course because Republicans never want to admit they’re wrong.

[–] deadtom@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Failure is the goal. The next target is destroying the department of education.

These people are ignorant disgraceful trash and if we don't do something about them we are going to find ourselves in feudal America with serfs lords and kings again.

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of Miles’ boldest projects has been a major restructuring of 28 underperforming schools, many of which are located in lower-income neighborhoods. Their teachers must now follow a centrally scripted curriculum, with in-classroom cameras monitoring their performance and pay based largely on standardized test scores.

How does anyone think that institutionalizing the lives helps lower income neighborhoods ?

How does making more authoritarianism help people that are all ready with more on them in the form of poverty ?

I'm so done with the New American Warlord bullshit. We need to rip these crypto-Stalins asunder in public.

[–] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

This is just so sad and evil. Take away a learning space, punish kids, and force them to "learn" alone. That's so messed up. How anyone thinks these people are helping anything is beyond me.

[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Standardized test scores aren't good so his solution is to hamper school libraries. This guy must be a genius /s

This is absolutely terrible. How sad :(