adrienne
@adrienne
This job posting to be one of the first lecturers at the Network School is giving me all kinds of feelings. 😩😫😫😫😩 I’m seeing it while I happen to be taking my daughter to visit colleges today so it’s hitting extra hard. While I try to formulate my thoughts, check it out and let me know what you think https://jobs.ns.com/33918
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adrienne
@adrienne
Feeling two: As many of you know, I’m in the stage of life where my kids are teenagers and deciding where to go to college. I’ve been vocally critical of universities, particularly how the rankings and competitiveness affects how (mostly affluent) parents and teenagers live their lives. They aren’t trying to build resilient, gritty, naturally curious, critical thinkers prepared for the future. They are playing a zero sum game of get into the best college by spending tens of thousands of dollars on tutors and counselors and choosing the extracurricular activities not that they enjoy but that will give them an edge on an application. When I talk to parents of teenagers in my community all they want to talk about is college. I find it all so boring and tedious. But across the internet network, I’ve found other parents like me.
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Justin Hunter
@polluterofminds
Is the criticism about the parents' approach to colleges or to the colleges themselves because the colleges encouraged this over the years? Or maybe both?
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adrienne
@adrienne
Good question. There is plenty of criticism to go around. Most of my annoyance is directed at the parents because that’s what I have first hand experience with in my day to day life. The colleges are at fault for playing into the rankings game. As much as the parents try to beat the system, the colleges are playing the same stupid game. They look at what goes into rankings and optimize for that. Ex: Class size: have big classes but have multiple teachers assigned to keep the teacher to student ratio low Yield: measured on how many students who get accepted actually attend, so then early decision which is binding is overemphasized It’s Goodhart’s law at play everywhere
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth
Both
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