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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Achieve pushes “competency-based pathways.”

I say we need more critical thinking in schools, more holistic approaches.

Conservatives hate that idea because they won’t win future elections if voters think critically. So they push things like “competency based pathways.”[/quote]

What you characterize as "critical thinking" is understood by many to mean the indoctrination of younger students with a particular set of political views by teachers who do not seek to explore multiple perspectives.  "Comptency-based pathways" at least connotes learning things that will help graduates earn a living wage.  [/quote]

[b]People like Youngkin and FL governor DeSantis seem to have done well enough with their indoctrinating educations[/b].[/quote]

Yeah but they did it while being white/rich.  Now try that being a person of color and poor.

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Not exactly relevant.  Nevertheless, are you suggesting that if you're poor and of color you should be encouraged/directed/guided into trade training rather than a 4-year college degree?  That's precisely what these republicans want to do, thus maintaining the racial and socioeconomic divides.  Many non-white and non-rich folks have become very successful with the broader education these white men are hypocritically disparaging.  It's harder for some than for others.  That's life.[/quote]

Please provide a citation for anyone stating that people of color should go to trade school while white people should go to college. [/quote]

Even idiots are smart enough (usually) to not specifically state it that way.  But when income so strongly correlates to race, it goes along with the territory.  And the talking point tends to be directed toward those who can't afford to go to college.  But those making the argument for trades and against college are very happy to have poor white people, or non-poor white people, to go along too.  Those formerly known as "poor white trash" are a critical base for Republicans like DeSantis and Abbott and Trump.  They don't want to lose them.

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