[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

What does he say about Germans and Italians and Irish not being initially considered "white"?

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

Next debate Biden should put some bottle caps on his shoes and occasionally stomp to see what happens.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

salute to a real one

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

No no no... its gotta be a few days after he gets the nomination.

We've gotta hear the loudest "We told you Biden could do it you fucking pricks. He's the only one to beat Trump! He's healthy, he's fit, he's as sharp as he's always been?"

And then Biden drops dead.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

He's done this so often when reading teleprompters that its impossible to view this as "we didn't know he'd say it out loud."

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I was questioned by German airport security when they X-rayed my backpack that had metal reinforcing struts sewn into some of the seams. (They were very chill and were probably messing with me by asking me a beer stein was called like they couldn't remember the word "stein".)

No USA airport security gave a shit.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Realizing how the rest of the world feels about seeing the American flag being sported by a Burgerlander.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

If they're not making more work for you, its not something that needs to be worried about.

Any chance that you're just doing to much work? Not a dig, I'm not a chatty person and prefer to do the work until its done or I'm at a stopping point and its time to go home. So my habit is to do do way more work than anybody expected me to. (Downside of being a person who tends to work moderately well with minimal supervision.)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

"Educational Assessments" are not equivalent to "Standardized Testing."

This is most commonly and directly expressed as resistance to the SATs, but opposition to educational assessment writ large has become a key part of liberal cultural identity and is a growing concern in leftish climes, driven in part by affluent parent resistance to state standardized tests that frequently confuses fair questions about the extent of testing and its uses with misguided swipes at their effectiveness in assessing and predicting student ability.

Hey guys, is it leftist to want your kids' teachers to assess the kids they teach based on the courses they develop instead of a third party assessment program that requires teachers to throw away any educational plan they make and teach exclusively to the test the third party makes?

liberal skepticism towards educational assessment is totally unjustifiable through reference to the evidence

I did not go to public school in a liberal place, everybody complained about the standardized tests in the deep red state I grew up in.

They attack the tests for **revealing ** racial stratification without acknowledging that literally all educational data (grades, SAT/ACTs, state standardized tests, NAEP, graduation rates, disciplinary rates, and a vast number of ancillary indicators) show racial stratification, which suggests that the tests are more valid rather than less.

No, Freddie, the tests don't just reveal racial stratification, they enforce it. That's the critique. We already know there's racial stratification, nobody needs the calipers measuring a kid's head to figure this out.

To put it simply: liberal skepticism towards educational assessment is totally unjustifiable through reference to the evidence.

Education assessment is not the same thing as standardized testing. Me getting a bad grade on a vocabulary test and getting a low score on an IQ test will not have the same consequences for my life. One gives my teacher some means of figuring out if I need to work harder to learn the vocabulary, of it there is some issue that is keeping me from learning the vocabulary. Your SAT score isn't something that tells somebody where you need to do more learning, it categorizes you individually or as a group and allows for that score to be used as a shortcut in deciding whether you get into another educational program.

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