Wednesday, September 27, 2023

I'm really popular in Singapore

Every now and then I check traffic to this blog, and this week I have been amazed to see readership jump from the low hundreds to the mid thousands. And whereas hitherto, most of my readers have been US-based, this week they are almost entirely lcoated in Singapore.

News : Middle School assignment has parents discussing what’s appropriate at what age

The thing I find most ufrstrating about most educationally-related decisions, read judgments, is that so many people make so much noise to the effect that any particular decision is simple or dichotomous. Rarely, if ever, is a decision made by any educator at any level only "x' or "not "x", or without cause and/or effect. This one is very much in the news at the moment, and again we have the black and white pundits (what's more extreme than armchair-quarterbacking?) engaged what is in effect reductio ad absurdum.