Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should’ve looked into posting this in a different community… It’s closer to a silly “innovation”… soo… is this considered FUD? I also don’t support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had “privacy-violating” before the “solution”.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    444·
    2 months ago

    As it was with standardized testing, so shall it be with personal behavior: the goal is not to inform the student why, but to enforce compliance.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      Apparently the origins of standardized testing are surprisingly dark even for what it is: in the leadup to WW1, they wanted a way to separate the brains in the bunkers from the bodies in the trench.

      I gotta finish reading Palo Alto

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
        English
        10·
        2 months ago

        Apparently the origins of standardized testing are surprisingly dark even for what it is: in the leadup to WW1, they wanted a way to separate the brains in the bunkers from the bodies in the trench.

        Later versions of standarized testing, the ones conjured up by undead creatures like Bill “The Good One” Gates, were intended to be failed as a justification for privatizing more schools and selling more standardized testing.