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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by treis on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:07PM (#27561690)
It's not mandating everyone be equal. It's allocating resources to those that need them most. Which is how I think we all do our jobs. You spend your time on the systems that perform poorly, not the ones that are working fine.
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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by jimbokun on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:53PM (#27562116)
Or do you invest the most resources on the products, customers, and markets giving you the greatest return?

Investing in the most talented can give society outsize returns in terms of innovation, skilled and talented public servants, captivating art, and scientific discoveries.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by fumar on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:31PM (#27565114)
Do you have examples?
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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by tomp on Saturday June 19, 2021 @06:56PM (#27565279)
Even for people who do have this goal ("helping those who need it most") in mind, this reasoning doesn't make any sense.

There's only so much resources you can invest into a single person. Their time is limited, so if their leaning rate is slow, there's really nothing else that can be done beyond some point to speed it up. Forrest Gump will never be Stephen Hawking.

The reality is that this equity movement is motivated specifically by pushing down high-performers. They're removing (or wasting) resources just so that they don't get to the top 10-30%.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by kevinventullo on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:58PM (#27565710)
> You spend your time on the systems that perform poorly, not the ones that are working fine.

I beg to differ! If I have two products and one sells 100x more than the other, I don’t spend my time optimizing the unpopular one.

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