• Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Yes, but also a standardized examination is required to ensure that students are hitting their educational milestones. It will be harder for some students and easier for others, but these are challenges that all students need to overcome to be productive members of society. Just throwing your hands up in the air and giving up because a student had it harder than another is feeding into the anti-intellectualism scourge.

    To put it simply, there are more productive inequities to put your focus and efforts into

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      but these are challenges that all students need to overcome to be productive members of society.

      As a productive member of society, I fucking hated school and failed a lot because I had undiagnosed learning disorders like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and BPD.

      So if I must pass the same tests as a completely neurotypical kid with none of those traits, you may as well ask the fish to climb the fucking tree.

      Just throwing your hands up in the air and giving up because a student had it harder than another is feeding into the anti-intellectualism scourge.

      I’m an very intelligent individual. And the one thing I can tell you is you’re full of shit if you think kids like me giving up in school was because it was “hard” is a complete load of horseshit, and really makes me think you were one of the “normal” kids. It wasn’t because it was hard, it was because it didn’t make sense because our brains don’t process information the same way you do. It’s like asking an English speaker to read Mandarin, and fail him because the Chinese kid did it fine.

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    2 hours ago

    The aggressively collaborative asshole in me thinks if the elephant kicks over that that tree they can all easily sit on it while giving the proctor a middle finger.

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    7 hours ago

    Fish got the job because his brother was on the hiring board … now everyone has to learn how to flop around like a fish