Given some of his family’s exploits (like that airship-nation of theirs), I rather suspect it’s all the same mindset, just with different levels of power available. Same with the stuff he got up to with full power, however much he might have thought it inappropriate; it was just leaving his mark on the universe on a grander scale.
It may be bigger and fancier than most graffiti, but it amounts to much the same thing…
I do have to agree… Love the Von Fogg priorities here. Wanting to first focus on getting his minions minds better off then work on making them stuff. Neato.
The trouble is that Victor is targeting the wrong audience for educational improvements. Parents are the primary motivators for their children. Without properly motivated students, coercing the local school board, politicians, and/or school administrators will not show significant gains.
Right now I would VOTE for Von Fogg for President…… ANd about coercing the uppers in school/county/state admin about popping grades….. Most parents only see thier kids for 2-3 hours a day, tops. The schopol system has them for 6-9 hours a day…. That crap about its all up to the parents is just that crap. Great Schools have proven again and again to out score bad schools by over 2 grade levels….
Unless you’re doing something unusual with the local education system, then the fact that certain schools consistently perform better isn’t evidence that the school is significant. What it shows is that the schools which the better parents get their kids into end up with better results. That could be the school, or it could be the kids and their parents…
When it comes to contact hours, say that schools do have 5 times as many hours per year (a significant overapproximation – if you have school 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year, then that’s only 4 days out of every 7 – call it 10 hours a day when they’re in school, and give parents only 2 hours a day but every day, and it’s only three times as many hours in school as with parents) – then with one teacher for a class of (assuming a highly selective school with good staffing levels) 20, you get the same amount of attention per child as with a single-parent with 4 kids.
The school is a significant factor, but it’s far from the only factor – if you have two kids at the same school, the kids themselves and the parents are the biggest remaining factors determining how well they’ll do.
For example: if one kid’s parents enforce a rule of “no TV and no video-games until homework is done” while another kid’s parents come in and physically threaten the teachers if they try to penalise the kid for not having done his homework (which does happen), then guess which kid’s going to get better exam results?
And then there are schools which consistently score higher than you’d expect because the students receive… special targeted assistance – and with computers, they don’t even need to copy it out in their own handwriting…
I wonder if all that artificial power has gone to Victor’s head or is this just part of being a Von Fogg?
Given some of his family’s exploits (like that airship-nation of theirs), I rather suspect it’s all the same mindset, just with different levels of power available. Same with the stuff he got up to with full power, however much he might have thought it inappropriate; it was just leaving his mark on the universe on a grander scale.
It may be bigger and fancier than most graffiti, but it amounts to much the same thing…
…. I have the urge to take notes on Von Fogg’s management style.
I hate to say it, but this kids got his priorities straight.
Yeah– he seems all nice now– but wait until he cuts ‘parachute day’ from P.E.
I do have to agree… Love the Von Fogg priorities here. Wanting to first focus on getting his minions minds better off then work on making them stuff. Neato.
The trouble is that Victor is targeting the wrong audience for educational improvements. Parents are the primary motivators for their children. Without properly motivated students, coercing the local school board, politicians, and/or school administrators will not show significant gains.
Right now I would VOTE for Von Fogg for President…… ANd about coercing the uppers in school/county/state admin about popping grades….. Most parents only see thier kids for 2-3 hours a day, tops. The schopol system has them for 6-9 hours a day…. That crap about its all up to the parents is just that crap. Great Schools have proven again and again to out score bad schools by over 2 grade levels….
Unless you’re doing something unusual with the local education system, then the fact that certain schools consistently perform better isn’t evidence that the school is significant. What it shows is that the schools which the better parents get their kids into end up with better results. That could be the school, or it could be the kids and their parents…
When it comes to contact hours, say that schools do have 5 times as many hours per year (a significant overapproximation – if you have school 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year, then that’s only 4 days out of every 7 – call it 10 hours a day when they’re in school, and give parents only 2 hours a day but every day, and it’s only three times as many hours in school as with parents) – then with one teacher for a class of (assuming a highly selective school with good staffing levels) 20, you get the same amount of attention per child as with a single-parent with 4 kids.
The school is a significant factor, but it’s far from the only factor – if you have two kids at the same school, the kids themselves and the parents are the biggest remaining factors determining how well they’ll do.
For example: if one kid’s parents enforce a rule of “no TV and no video-games until homework is done” while another kid’s parents come in and physically threaten the teachers if they try to penalise the kid for not having done his homework (which does happen), then guess which kid’s going to get better exam results?
And then there are schools which consistently score higher than you’d expect because the students receive… special targeted assistance – and with computers, they don’t even need to copy it out in their own handwriting…
I want to take a moment to ask this. Are the names of Tyler and his clone a deliberate reference to the old Disney film?
Alas, Victor has never heard of Goodhart’s Law.
Or of Conquest’s Third Law?