Students Left Behind by Remote Learning

Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by AlexTWithBeard on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:14PM (#24646161)

I agree with your concerns, but my motivation would be slightly different. The brightest kids. They will be running this country in twenty years. They will be designing bridges, doing surgeries and writing our laws. We want to invest in them.

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by nineplay on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:26PM (#24646235)

I strongly believe that a lot of our brightest kids are languishing in bad schools due to poor family circumstances and I think it should be a source of national shame.

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by AlexTWithBeard on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @09:57PM (#24646439)

I vote both hands for AP programs in poor schools.

I'm just saying that if we can only retain one of "special needs" and "advanced", I'd pick advanced in a blink of an eye due to the reason explained above.

Disclaimer: my kids don't qualify for either.

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by war1025 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:36PM (#24646699)

> I vote both hands for AP programs in poor schools.

Everyone I have ever met who took AP classes in high school treated them as "get college credit without having to actually learn anything." They seem like a joke to me.

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Re:Students Left Behind by Remote Learning by throwaway0a5e on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:43AM (#24650715)

Nobody remembers stuff they don't use. It's more like "get college credits without paying". Having a semester out of the way is an instant 12.5% discount. If you go to a school that has asinine requirements with regard to freshman and on-campus housing it could be effectively a much larger discount.

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