I don’t believe you. As they say, no one on the Internet knows you’re a dog.

More of an inference that an assumption, really. But go on. Did you read the article? Do you have any expertise on the subject?

Because it doesn’t seem like you’ve read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you’re making grand pronouncements anyway.

“People learn in different ways” may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive

That’s an amazing degree of hubris. Get out of here lol

It’s certainly better than “look at the pictures and guess”.

Go read (or listen to) the article. People who have studied this more than either of us have weighed in.

For years, schools taught reading using approaches that de-emphasized phonics and encouraged strategies such as guessing words based on context clues. As reading scores tumbled over the past decade, parents, scholars and literacy advocates pushed for teaching methods that align with decades of research about how kids learn to read — largely by sounding out words.

Yeah that was a huge fuck up.

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ goes into detail.

But also our society doesn’t value education very much. Teachers don’t make good money, so many people who would be good at it go into other jobs. One of my recent jobs had like 3 ex-teachers in software. They were making like double for half the work. That’s great for them, but do we really need more tech setups that much?

I don’t want a 50% stake. I want all of it shut down and the resources directed to useful things. But I guess this is more feasible.

Velocity is not helpful if you’re not pointed in the right direction, and even if you are pointed in the right direction it’s not useful if you overshoot your destination.

I made this metaphor at work but management is not interested.

Giving an incompetent team AI is like giving a child a chainsaw. Maybe he’ll chop wood faster but that’s probably not all that’s going to happen.

I don’t want to see any more coverage of trump supporters. They are idiots. Humanizing them makes the problem worse. They follow their peer group. The only coverage should be about abandoning trump and conservatism.

I wouldn’t mind work if management weren’t a bunch of fart-huffing dullards.

It would be mildly satisfying to build good software. It’s not satisfying to have non-technical people blocking technical decisions, 90 minute planning meetings that could have been an email, and insufficient staff because “use AI”

Conservatives have always been the thin skinned ones. “Oh no black people are moving into our neighborhood we better flee and or murder them”.

There are many possible solutions to the housing crisis, but many of them upset rich people so executing them is difficult. I meant executing the plan. Executing the rich people is also difficult, and may incidentally improve things.

I know someone who’s a member there and some of the pro-israel people are … A lot.

I’m glad they’re boycotting.

Zitron’s point that management are stupid is really important. They don’t know what they’re talking about. They don’t do any work!

You laugh, but this is genuinely how the majority of managers and executives think and act, and now they have a special chatbot that can fart out functional-enough prototypes to convince a Business Idiot they can do anything, because executives and managers do not regularly do much work. As a result, they have little idea what work looks like other than when they look over your shoulder, which is why they wanted you back in the office, and their distance from production is why the same people who were anti-remote work are now aggressively trying to shove AI down your throat.

We are ruled by the worst fucking people.

Good. Fuck amazon. Fine them harder.

I used to buy a lot more. The combination of getting laid off and only finding a shit job that pays shit (thanks AI) and inflation are the big factors.

Capitalists can go fuck themselves. If they want people to buy they need to pay us.

What a piece of shit.

That money could have gone to so many better causes. I hope he suffers.

That settlement isn’t big enough and the people responsible for the firing aren’t punished enough.

We really should stop letting companies buy each other. In fact we should split the big ones up.

He’s lying. Or bullshitting. Whatever you call it when people say shit without any regard for the truth. Typical conservative slop.