Because the oligarchs enable them because they provide the most important thing, an audience. You can self publish to 10s of people or you can be oligarch puppet and be read by millions. Pretty simple equation. The problem, like with everything, is oligarchy and capitalism.

ultimately who has more power? This comes down to a class thing. The problem is the oligarchal class who controls the means and modes of journalistic production.

It is a feedback loop. big newspaper hires journalists who fall in line. journalists who fall in line get access to bigger audiences because they work for bigger outlets.

stop blaming journalists. It is not their fault. It is the investors and hedge funds who own the papers that publish their work that are obfuscating the erosion of democracy and support the entrenching of the oligarchy.

exactly, which is why the power + prejudice definition of racism doesn't work. If people are not treating each other well and using race to excuse it, they are racist, simple, and racism is only the way people excuse their assholishness anyway.

I mean...non-white people can be racist too?

Which is still a better argument for STV because it allows for both the exercise of agency and ability to disconnect from the party as well as improve the voting experience.

What will people do when negligent and malicious employers kill workers? What will people do when their children can't learn to read and write? what will people do when voter registration rolls are purged on election day? Or when once strong unions are reduced rubble?

No one is talking about repealing the voter registration act or the bill that proposes the elimination of the department of education, or the bill that will get rid of OSHA. tariffs and increased costs should be the least of people's worries.

How about funding a school nurse or school counsellor as a safety plan?
I’m really disgusted with this gross #bcndp over reach and contempt for a democratically elected board.

2. What is the @davidebybc.bsky.social govt doing to address this? Should the VicPD be free to roam school hallways without appropriate oversight? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Assad has been replaced by what is essentially Al Qaeda. Democracy and good governance aren’t coming to Syria any time soon. We shouldn’t be cheering because women, Kurds, Yazidi, and other minorities are in danger. Assad is gone, yay but that’s what we said about the Shah. Not really an improvement

Which is why teacher training needs to be less lecture hall and more worksite. Apprenticeship for teaching is seeming to em to be the better model.

Very little in education is mutually exclusive. But we need less pontification which is what the indigenous principles and anti-racism stuff often feels like and more practical framing. We are told to use the tools but we are only given an empty tool box.

I would disagree with that. I would say there are things we learn about far less, effective preparation, classroom management, assessment, lesson design, that are far more important for ALL teachers to have. It is also less that we don't learn about them, but we don't learn how to apply them

They also have very little reason to be good at their jobs. Good police, less crime, less money for police. Bad police, more crime, more money for police.

It needs to be both though. I have an ELL student in English 12 who has not demonstrated an ability to read or write in English. Without modifying the goals of the course how is this student supposed to succeed? There is a basal level of language needed for any course.

I would say that this article applies to a subsection of MLs. What we are seeing in the ELL population is a lot of students who have not formal schooling or do not have age expected literacy in L1. There has to be some level of remediation there for those students.