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ncfnorcalrep8 • 1 year ago

"....could lead to a 'two-tiered' healthcare system"? We've had one for decades.

Erik • 1 year ago

Wow clueless. First, private schools spend about half what public schools spend per student. Nothing to do with resources, private schools just care about their kids.

Second doctors misdiagnose about 70% of the time. AI is going to surpass them by an order of magnitude soon. Obviously some things need to be in person, but the lower tier will be people who only get seen by a doctor.

ff11 • 1 year ago

They do spend less. I don't have national figures but for North Carolina, private schools spend a little over 78% of what public shools do, so half seems quite an exaggeration. Also it's not that private schools are about the kids. Really the two main factors are 1) private school parents tend to be more engaged in their kids' education and 2) private schools can pick and choose their pupils on any basis other than race/ethnicity while public schools are required to take all students regardless of their language skills, home status, etc.

Erik • 1 year ago

That is pretty biased against public school parents. Many of them are engaged and wanted their kids in person. They were ignored.

What does being able to pick your students have to do with educating in person? All kids would have been better off staying in person

AManFromNantucket • 1 year ago

When you allow journalism majors steeped in DEI to run your journal, the "struggle" is all you will get.

Al Black • 1 year ago

Not sure how DEI fits. But it is a fact that those without health insurance wait to have symptoms before entering the health care system. Consequently, the possibility of having advanced and perhaps avoidable disease increases. For example, managing hypertension with medication rather than having a stroke an all that implies.