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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by Smithalicious on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:25AM (#21450387)
This pseudo caste system was probably beneficial to you in the upper caste, but I don't think students in tier 3 and below saw their lives improve.
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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by adwn on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:29AM (#21450632)
> This pseudo caste system was probably beneficial to you in the upper caste, but I don't think students in tier 3 and below saw their lives improve.

It is hardly a child's responsibility to suffer from the violence, bullying, and general disinterest in any academic achievement by another group of children.

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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by ninkendo on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:20AM (#21451692)
Why is it such a given that bullies are dumb?

In both middle school and high school, I was bullied incessantly by kids who were doing just fine, academically. Some of them went on to be quite successful people. Bullies nonetheless.

It would be so convenient (and karmically just) if all the awful kids went on to be dropouts and losers in life, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Sometimes they’re smart kids, but they’re just assholes.

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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by adwn on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:56PM (#21455433)
> Why is it such a given that bullies are dumb?

I guess I was projecting from my own experience – my bullies were rather dumb, and I got rid of them when they dropped out.

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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by jbergens on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:09AM (#21451632)
But it is ok if the not bright but nice kids are bullied?
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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by adwn on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:01PM (#21455486)
You raise a good point. To answer your question: No, that is absolutely not okay.

I'm afraid I don't have a good solution for that.

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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by rimliu on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:59AM (#21451037)
Keeping them together would not improve tier 3 lives a bit (besides providing more targets for bullying), but would hurt tiers 1 and 2.
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Re:Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement by swish_bob on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:05AM (#21451966)
That turns out not to be the case. As is discussed at length in the article we're commenting on.
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