Reader says , “There’s too much talk about diversity and inclusion and less about discipline and competence”

The rankings measure how well the competition does, as well as Ridgewood school district. Without proper analysis, one can’t assume the drop in Ridgewood rankings is due to declining quality. It could just be other schools started to deliver better performance than before.

I am concerned about indoctrination in the school system though. There’s too much talk about diversity and inclusion and less about discipline and competence.

The objective behind diversity and inclusion is having teachers give enough attention to each student no matter how driven and intelligent that student maybe. Ideally that attention should be tailored to individual student needs. Sounds good so far.

In practice though this would never work. The teachers are humans too and can’t possibly be expected to optimise a bespoke approach to each student! It’s just too much work. Yet, they are asked to do just that. A result is focus on quick wins: virtue signalling and other empty slogans all to familiar to parents who deal with the same nonsense from HR at work.

What people forget is that virtue signalling takes valuable time. Time that in the traditional educational model would be spent … on learning.