The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools

Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools by hugh4 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:01PM (#10466947)

If you were a CEO brought in to fix a failing company, would your first instinct be to say "The employees must suck! We need to fire all the employees and replace them with higher-paid ones!"?

Or would you say "I bet these employees are poorly managed. I'm sure they can work more effectively if we change aspects of the process."

Here's an idea that doesn't cost any money: segregate students by ability so that kids can learn at their own pace.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools by serge2k on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:32PM (#10467192)

> Here's an idea that doesn't cost any money: segregate students by ability so that kids can learn at their own pace.

1. Don't see how you can claim that is a zero cost idea.

2. In practice this just becomes the smart kids, normal kids, idiots. Good luck once you get labelled an idiot.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools by hugh4 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:52PM (#10467701)

If you are an idiot, it's better to recieve an idiot- appropriate education. Less calculus and Shakespeare and more how to get a steady job, handle your finances, and stay away from trouble.

It would of course suck if you just had a cold on the day of the rest and wound up in the idiot school by accident, you'd need to review performance regularly. Ideally you'd have more than three levels of schooling. Maybe five, you could label them alpha through epsilon.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools by mjevans on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:50PM (#10467964)

Next thing you know you'll be encouraging parents to drink more so that the correct ratio of alphas to epsilons happens.

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Re:The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Schools by hugh4 on Thursday October 29, 2015 @07:19AM (#10470221)

I assure you we already have all the Epsilons we need.

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