Test scores in schools are down, kids simply aren't interested in learning, teachers are burnt out by ridiculous levels of bureaucratic bullshit and nonsensical policies from the state, but ladies, gentlemen, I have a solution, in fact nay, not A solution, THE solution...and it's been staring us in the face all along...
Achievement points. How many times have you heard a friend complain about how bullshit a gaming achievement is, but still stick at it, trying for hours, days if not weeks on that one problem just to improve some arbitrary "gamer-score"...now imagine it applied to schooling. "Congratulations! You completed 100% of homework and handed it in on time. You earn 100 School points!" "You solved an especially hard Math question, You earn 25 School points!" "I got bored thinking up examples and so you made up your own example, you earn 50 School points!"
It doesn't matter that the points are completely arbitrary and mean basically fuck all, people will strive for them all the same, and work hard for them, trying to get 100% complete education. Of course there is a potentially unethical side to this....I mean, it would basically be deceiving children and we'd end up in a society that is ultimately geared toward the pursuit of ineffectual goals that mean nothing and advance no one in the pursuit of what is societally determined as the right thing for individuals to strive for and acquire...but taht the masses have little chance of actually getting....
this started out as a piss-take, but it has become dangerously anti-capitalist all of a sudden.....
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