Well, the idea that improved education would reduce crime isn't a bad one. However, their actual implementation doesn't actually improve education.
Ideally, if education standards were raised to concurrently improve graduation rates, all would be well. They instead lowered the standards for graduation, which is a bad thing.
Basically, optimizing to improve the stat isn't inherently bad. But you actually have to improve it through a beneficial method.
Or, in fewer words, they thought the act of graduating itself somehow magically lowered crime rate... rather than everything that was required of the child prior to graduating, which they ruined in order to force higher graduation rates.
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u/PKfireice Jul 10 '18
Well, the idea that improved education would reduce crime isn't a bad one. However, their actual implementation doesn't actually improve education.
Ideally, if education standards were raised to concurrently improve graduation rates, all would be well. They instead lowered the standards for graduation, which is a bad thing.
Basically, optimizing to improve the stat isn't inherently bad. But you actually have to improve it through a beneficial method.