{"id":24927,"date":"2019-11-14T12:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=24927"},"modified":"2019-10-31T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T02:42:42","slug":"why-is-the-gender-snowperson-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/14\/why-is-the-gender-snowperson-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the Gender Snowperson white?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lexington, Massachusetts runs what is generally considered the best of the Boston-area public school systems (a task made slightly easier because the typical student there now is the child of Chinese-American PhDs). Unlike our suburb<\/a>, when they want to build a gold-plated new school building they (a) do it with roughly 50 percent state money, and (b) do it in the parking lot or soccer field of the old school so that nobody has to move into trailers for three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of being the best: “Public School Uses \u2018Gender Snowperson\u2019 to Teach 9-Year-Olds Never to Assume Boys Have Penises”<\/a> (Pluralist). The best comment: “Why is the snowman white?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[How good are the best public schools in our state? A Chinese-American PhD friend who lives there says “Most of the teachers are bad.” Fortunately, no matter how bad they are at their job, the union contract guarantees them a paycheck through retirement!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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