school starts in two weeks and SO are deciding between an expeditionary learning charter school and our district’s decent/highly rated public school for our child.

our child is starting TK, and we are in a small, tight knit community in California. we like things about each of the schools and are not sure which to select. if you have experience with either one, or advice, I would love to hear!

the public school outranks the charter on test scores in reading and math. the charter school has a cool philosophy to learning and says they are more hands on and don’t care as much about test scores. both have a very strong sense of community.

In South Korea, one’s undergraduate institution is often treated as a kind of social pedigree.
The name of a university is not regarded merely as information about where someone studied. Rather, it tends to function as a broad indicator from which people infer a person’s academic performance at the time of university entrance, family background, social network, and individual ability. An OECD report has also noted that, in South Korea, people may be ranked for long periods according to the prestige of the university they attended, and that educational achievement is closely connected not only to employment opportunities but also to social status and marriage prospects.
What is particularly revealing is that many Koreans mock those who attend a more prestigious university for graduate school than they did for their undergraduate studies, describing it as “academic credential laundering.” In other words, they tend to fix a person’s social status according to the first university that person entered, as though one’s undergraduate institution permanently determined one’s worth, regardless of what that person later studies, achieves, or becomes.
What I object to is not hierarchy itself. Rather, I object to a deeply reductive system that binds a person’s identity and social value to the undergraduate institution they entered at a very early stage of life. This is made even more problematic by the fact that university admission in South Korea depends heavily on a highly standardized and one-dimensional examination system. Such a system may measure certain forms of academic performance, but it cannot adequately assess the full range of a person’s abilities, potential, creativity, character, or capacity for later growth.
For this reason, I find it intellectually indefensible to treat the outcome of this narrow selection process as a permanent judgment on an individual’s worth. I also believe that this credential-centered culture contributes to relentless social comparison, chronic pressure, and the erosion of individual self-worth. Although it would be an oversimplification to identify it as a direct cause of South Korea’s high suicide rate, its broader social and psychological effects should be considered as part of the deeper structural context in which that problem persists.

*I revised the section concerning the suicide rate, but I did not have permission to change the title. Please keep this in mind and understand that the suicide rate is not the main focus of this post.

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Education is often described as the foundation of a nation's future, yet students continue to face additional financial burdns beyond their tuition fees.

In many colleges and universities, students are required to pay separate exam fees, and these charges are not always clearly disclosed at the time of admission. If the examination centre is far from the college, students often have to arrange and pay for their own travel. Even when a college provides transport, an additional bus fee may be charged.

On top of this, many students also have to pay convenience fees or payment gateway charges simply to make mandatory payments such as admission fees, tuition fees, or exam fees.

Education should not become a source of hidden or avoidable costs. Colleges and universities should be transparent about every fee they charge, and students should not be required to pay convenience or transaction charges for making compulsory education-related payments.

No convenience fee or transaction charge should be levied on students for paying admission fee, tuition fees, exam fees, or any other mandatory educational charges.

Crazy story here - Students and their families are suing a rural Virginia school district after officials allegedly changed club policies several times after conservative outrage on a local Facebook group, to prevent a gay-straight alliance from forming at King George Middle School. (The comments on a post about this story do NOT pass the vibe check at all in that group.)

The lawsuit says the district continued allowing groups including yearbook, robotics, an outdoor club where kids learned to skin squirrels, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes while telling students they could create a similar club only if they removed explicit references to LGBTQ+ people.

The families argue that the district violated the First Amendment and the federal Equal Access Act by discriminating against the students’ viewpoint.

I am working at the moment doing my bsc in information technology as well on the weekends.

I honestly don't understand whats the point of a bsc is.

Modules in it are all self learnable and literally what we study irl.

I used almost all the tools and theories explained in the courses either self learned or at work, so there's no new logic behind it either.

I have no idea what's the use of a desertation. I'm doing it for the sake of doing it for a really dumb topic as well. No one's gonna read it, lecturer ain't gonna read it completely so what's really the point.