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  firebreathingduckfirebreathingduck@vivaldi.net

  Aug 13, 2026, 7:01 PM

  @Npars01

  I'm now convinced that for decades, the US education system focus on competition with foreign schools and between kids within each classroom is poisonous to learning.

  You end up with a few kids in each room that think they can win, but don't care about what they're learning past the score they get. And the rest of the room stops caring about winning and learning.

  It does not matter if Edith's chemistry score is 2 points higher than Jimmy's. Not in their future careers, not today. Either they each learned what they needed, or they did not. And either way, the educators shouldn't share their scores.

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  Nicole ParsonsNpars01@mstdn.social

  Aug 13, 2026, 9:03 PM

  @firebreathingduck

  If you're a plutocrat, "divide & conquer" social indoctrination is critical to creating an unjust hierarchy with a permanent underclass squabbling amongst themselves.

  https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/the-koch-brothers-bill-of-rights-institute/

  https://www.edweek.org/education/huffpost-story-details-koch-backed-free-market-education-program/2014/07

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/koch-brothers-sought-say-academic-hiring-university-donation

  https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/03/koch-spent-91-million-to-influence-higher-education-in-2023/

  https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/spreading-the-free-market-gospel/413239/

  Convincing white "Christian" nationalists & male supremacists that they are owed a society built on coercion & domination.

  https://www.desmog.com/2019/08/19/kochs-americans-prosperity-structure-social-change/

  https://www.salon.com/2019/09/10/welcome-to-kochland-we-all-live-in-the-brothers-libertarian-utopia/

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