Most people are vain, yes.

It’s a…weakness in schools drawing from a geographic area.

A school is not just the facilities and the teachers. It’s also the student body, and going to school with kids who care about education is better for education outcomes than a school with people who don’t.

This is why private/selective schools get such outsized results, they pick and choose the “best” students and let the wealthy leach buy their way in.

The effect is that the public schools don’t have this “cream” or the money.

If you want good outcomes. You functionally need to outlaw private schools.

People say this, but if we did as you suggest, there would be massive complaints that parents can’t freely choose their public schools due to catchments.

Further, it doesn’t preclude privates from charging extra on top, so you would still have a two tier education system as they private schools can attract the talent and teach only the best/easiest/richest students.

The fundamental issue of education is that if a school can choose its students, it will be a better school.

Our best public schools are basically either selective entry or just “happen” to be in suburbs with rich people or have a large population of Asians.

Sigh. Of course. Cause they will only build public housing where no one wants to live.

That makes perfect sense.

/s

Started new job, work from home so great; training from home not so much.

And yet today my landlord has told me that they are raising my rent 20%

I am not saying it is guaranteed that it would descend into corruption, but surely you can see how a body with the singular power to investigate and judge the only people who can constrain it would be ripe for abuse?

Since they report to a standing committee made up of MPs, giving them the unilateral power to investigate and judge those same MPs gives them a good deal of power.

Alternatively, if those MPs are somehow "immune" to prevent this, then it gives THOSE MPs an outsized bit of power in government.

The biggest danger is if the corruption is used subtly since we wouldn't even notice; it would even look like they are "rooting out corruption"

I try to talk to my mates about this and they all basically say: they will never give up their giant cars and we should just build parking next I train stations for those who can’t afford to drive everywhere.

It’s not their lives at risk (in the car) and they are good drivers. It’s the others that need to lose their cars/license.

Memes that diss best guy Frodo are not cool.

I hadn’t considered this, but it actually is the best for them too.

They get the community of discord with the style of Reddit.

Dammit. We need some techs devs to give it a shot.

Omg this. I can’t believe how bad the Reddit app is when scrolling.

I have an iPhone 13 Pro and the dropped frames were just so jarring.

They definite felt the urge to make a sharp headline.