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Re:Experiment: Pay students to tackle learning loss by IIAOPSW on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:15AM (#31821102)
As it stands, existing school is child jail. You didn't vote for the people telling you what you can and can't do, and they aren't paying you to be there either. The authority of the "authority figures" isn't actually built on any rational principle. If it weren't for the fact that the easiest personal option is to just wait out the clock and never look back, surely large swaths of people held in this system would openly revolt. Why does society presume adolescents to be obedient, suckers, and obedient suckers? Take their time, pay them for it. That simple.
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Re:Experiment: Pay students to tackle learning loss by barry-cotter on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:52AM (#31821800)
> The authority of the "authority figures" isn't actually built on any rational principle.

If you don’t come to school we’ll put your parents in jail is an eminently rational principle.

To defend school for a moment it’s one of the least awful places many children experience on a regular basis. The adults don’t really care but they don’t hate the children. They’re not going to hit them. It’s a reasonable temperature. They often get food. I was horrified hearing one of my colleagues describe teaching in the UK. It mostly sounded like being an ersatz social worker. But it’s not like education is first or second in school’s priorities. Child minding is higher, why not social work?

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Re:Experiment: Pay students to tackle learning loss by IIAOPSW on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:47AM (#31845897)
>If you don’t come to school we’ll put your parents in jail is an eminently rational principle.

That's not a principle, that's a mugging.

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Re:Experiment: Pay students to tackle learning loss by carlmr on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:23AM (#31822288)
>Take their time, pay them for it.

We're having issues that a lot of children don't receive education because they can't pay for it. Education is a privilege that many never experience in the world.

Would you rather they work in a coal-mine and get paid for their time?

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