Re:How my school gamed the stats
by spoonjim on Sunday February 21, 2021 @12:21PM
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I feel like it is only the worst 5% of kids who ruin public school for everyone else, but it’s those students who the school devotes the most resources to “fixing” or “helping” which rarely work. If the bottom 5% were sent to a different school system where the objective was just to keep them away from the other 95% and prepare them for a life of beating their wives and robbing liquor stores, the other kids would do much better.
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Re:How my school gamed the stats
by Viliam1234 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:15PM
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> I feel like it is only the worst 5% of kids who ruin public school for everyone else
Can confirm, as a former teacher. There were days when that 1 kid was sick, and the entire class worked completely differently. Suddenly it was possible to teach, the other kids learned, and some of them even said they preferred it that way. Then that 1 kid returned.
In teachers' room, 95% of time spent talking about students, is usually about the same 5 kids.
Let's just create an explicit class system, assign people to those classes using some weird metrics and then decide their whole life for them using those classes!
What a perfect solution!
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We already do: the upper class is the kids whose parents either by home prices or private school tuition can get their kids the hell away from the losers.
Re:How my school gamed the stats
by confidantlake on Sunday February 21, 2021 @08:07PM
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I agree with this. I spent most of my time in the AP classes so I never saw any of this until I took a photography elective my senior year. Just 2 people out of 30 ruined the class. They were loud, disruptive, making it impossible to concentrate. The teacher was forced to spend all her time dealing with those two. Everyone would have been better off if they weren't there.