Neoliberal obsession with “standards” is all about making everything hard except the stuff that actually matters https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/school-district-says-kids-cant-wear-pajamas-online-classes/T6EWUX4MWZBSTBEDKED2WRN6TM/?fbclid=IwAR3KsGhBkPUYXfzByR-L6w-u0EKRXLstWwO1xCd7dL9M9VBmLdnpCZIr12U

You must wear a suit and tie or makeup at every bullshit makework meeting. Your kids must not wear pjs to “school.” But you do not have to know shit about a country to promote invading it

You can’t be a judge without knowing how to tie a tie. You can be one without knowing what poor people’s lives are like

You have to look camera-worthy at every appointment, but you can opine at length about canonical texts and their influence on us without having read any of them

You must spell every word perfectly and never use BEV except mockingly, but you don’t have to have anything to say

Half the bad takes (conservatively) on here are bc of the “I’m too busy pretending I know everything to risk being curious about anything” style cultivated at elite schools, by kids whose parents come up with rules like these