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As others mention, this is why free education should provide everything that the children need to be able to take advantage of said free education.
I know many folk who went through the UK's free education whilst their parents struggled to even ensure they had breakfast, or lunch money. What does that do to a child's ability to concentrate and perform well in class?
The same goes for school uniforms - I remember a few who I went to school with couldn't afford the schools own brand of uniform and would just wear the closest matching unbranded clothes their parents could find - and would often get made fun of for it.
IMO - free education should include a healthy breakfast and lunch to ensure everyone is given the best chance to succeed. (The definition of healthy in the UK is another issue - our school meals growing up included some of the cheapest food available like chips, pies, sausage rolls).
I'm a fan of how Finland have tackled this issue by making private schools effectively illegal - so that all schools have the same level of funding. A nice side effect, or I guess perhaps the intended effect is that if wealthy parents are having to put their children to the same schools as working class kids - then they're going to do their best to ensure these schools are up to standard. Everyone benefits.
This video gives a bit of a glimpse into the Finnish school system - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCe2m0kiSg
Having tried both, 4x8 is far better. I don't do much during 5x7 evenings anyway because I'm drained after 7 hours at work, so I'd much rather just cram that into 4 days and have an extra day of rest.
I wouldn't say devs are bad at it. It's more that software development is very hard to estimate. Unless you're doing exactly the same type of work with an identical setup every time - like billing people to install a Wordpress site, it's often impossible to estimate the exact amount of days or hours something will take, especially if you're being paid to fix a bug or a problem to which you don't yet know the solution.
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Mid-level Ruby Developer with remote working experience; worked on multiple high traffic web platforms, most recently for an EdTech startup. Background in Mechanical Engineering and interested in anything related to Engineering/Robotics/Space/AI&ML and startups in general.
This is what I'm aiming for in the near term, but how on earth do you find a position with infrequent brutal deadlines?
Remote: Yes
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Technologies: Ruby, Rails (TDD & BDD with RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara), Javascript (Node, React)
Résumé/CV: http://tiny.cc/z3irdz
Email: [email protected]
Mid-level Ruby Developer with remote working experience; worked on multiple high traffic web platforms, most recently for an EdTech startup. Background in Mechanical Engineering and interested in anything related to Engineering/Robotics/Space/AI&ML and startups in general.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby, Rails (TDD & BDD with RSpec, Cucumber, Capybara), Javascript (Node, React), Git
Résumé/CV: http://tiny.cc/z3irdz
Email: [email protected]
Mid-level Ruby Developer with remote working experience; worked on multiple high traffic web platforms, most recently for an EdTech startup. Background in Mechanical Engineering and interested in anything related to Engineering/Robotics/Space/AI&ML and startups in general.