People used to talk about self-esteem; now they talk about trauma. They used to talk about racism; now they talk about "whiteness". It's part of the churn as pseudo-disciplines unable to improve student outcomes create the illusion of progress through changing terminology.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1407332645965602825
But these changes also confer different shades of meaning and different courses of intervention.
We created disciplines of educational psychology and the like; they were taken over by activists who idea launder radical politics into the disciplines; they produced an enormous body of sloganeering copypasta and an army of credentialed meme vectors
School boards and administrators take on their product and use public funds to pay consultants in order to feed a self-sustaining industry; everybody gets paid regardless of whether any good is done; everyone substitutes evangelical fervor for accountability
Critics are racists and fascists; bad students outcomes become even worse; the beat goes on
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