But the socialist regime in Venezuela has taken charge of every aspect of the food production and distribution supply chain. They determine how much Escobar will be paid for his eggs and it turns out to be a net loss for him rather than a profit. Unable to buy sufficient amounts of feed and new chicks to raise, Escobar’s farm is withering and will soon be gone.
Because I think I see a connection in how socialism is used and the cause of dumb kids coming out of school.
If anyone else sees that connection ... the starving of education or information or something like that ... I welcome the conversation.
I seem to remember (back when most teachers were not yet full-blown progressives) that a teacher or professor gave a lesson on communism by averaging all the grades in the class and giving every student the same average grade. Those who had worked hard for good grades were thus punished and the slackers were rewarded. So the hard workers slacked off, as the effort was not worth it, and the class average declined.
Would a (public) school teacher even dare to use such a lesson today? I doubt it!
One example of educational socialism is the control of public schools by the federal government’s withholding education funds from schools that do not teach Common Core. Common Core was written to hold back higher-achieving students. Common Core is equally confusing for all.
Socialized schooling, like socialized anything, gets the incentives wrong. Teachers’ incentives should be to get the best out of their students, but socialism loads more administrators onto the system who make decisions about what should happen in the classroom based on little or no knowledge about what is really needed there. Teachers respond by giving the administrators false reports to meet mandated statistical goals, up to and including outright cheating on “achievement” tests.
Adam Smith recommended a system where students and their families directly pay teachers. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Third party payments never work for long because the customers’ needs take second place (at best) and administrators get the lion’s share.