The lack of upvoting of and discussion about this article here reminds me of the largely empty donation bins around Silicon Valley during the holidays. These are indictments of a vastly rich and unequal society that fundamentally lacks compassion, solidarity, and empathy.
They should rename it "Idiocracy." More untested, evidence-free sociological experimentation on kids with subjective grading geared towards increasing biases against merit and arbitrary grade inflation while lowering standards. This reeks of the stench of abolishing phonics all over again, but on both the input side of eliminating work and on the output side of putting thumbs on the scale of how grades are measured. It's not outside of the realm of possibility that universities will gradually refuse to accept under-prepared high school graduates who received substandard educations through no fault of their own, and/or will instead water down their own grading standards (greater breadth and depth than Ivy grade inflation) to keep their stats up, leading to a less prepared, less rigorous, and more ignorant demographic of college graduates. For over 60 years, California's state education apparatus has allowed arbitrary meddling by so-called "experts"; this should be forbidden and replaced with legitimate, evidence-based decision-making overseeing statewide standards and publishing best practices that demonstrably work.
PS: End NCLBA. It was an abject failure mandated by know-nothing, arrogant neocons who went on an ideological crusade to squander resources and harm education with their "help".
IIRC a TED talk concluded SBS was a now mostly discredited pseudo-scientific moral panic of the 80's and 90's. There are certain pathos microtransgressions in Western civilization that are equatable to Holocaust denial, and one of them is anything that can be (mis)construed as "child abuse". But instead of identifying and prosecuting real child abuse, it becomes a lazy all-purpose "hammer" to find "nails" to accrue statistical "wins" at the toll of unreasonably over-criminalizing nothingburger situations while ruining lives.
PS: Forgive me viewing the child abuse "identification" system as inept and often wrong. I recall disclosing to a teacher how my father was an abusive narcissist and horribly cruel to my mother and myself in ways that didn't leave physical marks, yet nothing was done. Around age 16, I called the police on him because he held me down to my bed and choked me to unconsciousness for not mowing the lawn, but he talked his way out of it.
Often whenever someone quotes how many years/decades of experience they have, I then begin to wonder if they have become complacent and/or adverse to learning, improvements, and change.
That's a lot of negative shit to be assuming based on a cursory comment. If someone was averse to change, they probably couldn't be bothered to stick with anything because just about everything changes. I know I'd rather seek advice from an experienced specialist rather than a rando person with some limited experience.
At least in software craftsmanship, experts are best identified working with others. It appears to be an irreducible process that cannot be pantomimed with trivia-based interviews or formulaic problems. Acting in an arrogant fashion or looking smart has zero correlation with performance, but it can fool some people some of the time who lack subject matter expertise.
It's a mark of people who avoid difficult things, who lack curiosity, and make a habit of evading volunteering and are unable to fathom noblesse oblige.
Will never get another dime and won't be allowed to work anywhere that does background checks. Basically, fucked for life in de facto civil death. They'll have to work something grueling like at an employer that felons a second chance and later start a business like Dave's Killer Bread.
If he's an entrepreneurial type with a circle of entrepreneurial connections, no legal boundary stops him from kicking off another venture when he leaves prison. Wouldn't be the first felon to do just that and pull it off with a bang either. For example, finance is full of former felons going right back to the top.
For more ordinary people with regular white collar formal employment, different story of course. Their scarlet letters are often indelible unless they really adapt in new ways and adopt new habits.
Serato is digital pretend scratching. Might as well use a DJ controller. Real scratching requires a proper tt and skill like Mix Master Mike. Hell, I have 2 Pioneer DL-5 and a Pioneer DJM-600, but these tts aren't good for scratching because of their straight arms, they're good for gapless playback. https://youtu.be/58Y--XTIRZ8
