Re:What Really Keeps Women Out of Tech
by astrange on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:51AM
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> I favor an approach where we separate kids who've shown some aptitude for the sciences and concentrate them in schools full of their peers.
They tried that on us ("gifted schools"). The two things it got us were hours less sleep each day because of the longer commute, and worse college admissions because of GPA deflation. I would've rather stayed in the normal pipeline and gotten scholarships instead.
They tried that on us ("gifted schools"). The two things it got us were hours less sleep each day because of the longer commute, and worse college admissions because of GPA deflation. I would've rather stayed in the normal pipeline and gotten scholarships instead.