Re:In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Student...
by sprynr on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:23PM
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California has really been pushing the idea that all their students are equal, while quietly opening more charter and magnet schools to support the students that are "more equal than others", it's just plain inefficient to split the levels of student achievement into completely separate campuses instead of just different classes.
Re:In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Student...
by jostmey on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:23PM
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Providing resources to students who need it is definitely important, and it is equally important not to stand in the way of the next Newton, Euler, or Einstein
Re:In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Student...
by commandlinefan on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:59PM
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> the next Newton, Euler, or Einstein
Of course I disagree with the proposal in the post, but I wonder... how much real encouragement did Newton, Euler and Einstein get (or need) when they were young? Could anybody have stood in their way? Ramanujan got as little encouragement as one could imagine but still ended up as one of the greatest mathematicians of his time - but on the other hand, maybe he would have been even greater if he had had more opportunities.
Re:In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Student...
by throwawayay02 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:17PM
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Gauss earned his PhD at 20, Euler at 19, Erdős at 21, Tao at 21. Now imagine instead being forced to waste away until you're 17-18 to go to college.
Re:In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Student...
by gfody on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:09PM
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Ramanujan was motivated by his deeply held spiritual beliefs and then later adopted and mentored by G.H.Hardy. Perhaps you mean before all that? I imagine there are 100 Ramanujans we've never heard of.
Equity in education isn't to see a kid that's doing well and think, "well fuck that kid, we'll just make him bored out of his mind and ultimately become disinterested as we force them to sit through another year of class on a subject they already mastered."
Rather, it's simply to redirect resources (read: money to hire more teachers so there's a smaller student to teacher ratio) to the schools whose students are achieving the least. And teachers are the ones that get to make that determination.