South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game(theguardian.com) |
South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game(theguardian.com) |
The most poignant part of Squid Game was that they had the chance to leave, and many chose to participate anyway because of how badly they needed the money.
This should have been a simple donation instead of a “game”, but the real evil is the broken system that put the teachers in this position to begin with.
Article kind of burys the lede, this is the issue at hand and what makes this tasteless. If this was just extra money for a field trip or something that's one thing, but this isn't a donation to the class, it's replacing things that the teachers personally buy because the schools don't purchase basic supplies.
Sounds like the game is the result of several levels of wrong stacked on top of each other.
(disclaimer: presently employed by a SD school system, but not this one.)
New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.
Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.
On the other hand, look at the massive amounts of high-quality data in something like Open Streetmap. It should be possible to do this.
They existed, they just didn't get adopted really. E.g. https://moodle.org/
There's so many ways of justifying not open source. Heck it's so easy to create FUD around open source projects.