Re:American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math'...
by ZeroGravitas on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:16AM
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This has not been my experience.
It's very hard to disentangle though.
I have a smart, popular nephew from a good home, who also got extra acconodations on exams for dyslexia.
You could spin that either way:
Priviliged people taking advantage of accomodations for those with problems.
Or smart people who previously got written off as disruptive troublemakers being better catered for (though maybe we'll have less entrepreneurs if we keep all the smart people in the standard education track).
In particular, the benefits of living in a society with a basic level of mathmatical (etc.) understanding seems powerful but hard to trace through.
But if we can't even talk about the trade-offs calmly and factually then its just a pointless sgouting match. The people with the academic skills should be leading the way on that.
It's very hard to disentangle though.
I have a smart, popular nephew from a good home, who also got extra acconodations on exams for dyslexia.
You could spin that either way:
Priviliged people taking advantage of accomodations for those with problems.
Or smart people who previously got written off as disruptive troublemakers being better catered for (though maybe we'll have less entrepreneurs if we keep all the smart people in the standard education track).
In particular, the benefits of living in a society with a basic level of mathmatical (etc.) understanding seems powerful but hard to trace through.
But if we can't even talk about the trade-offs calmly and factually then its just a pointless sgouting match. The people with the academic skills should be leading the way on that.