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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by remarkEon on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:24AM (#29185358)
The same people who are arguing for "no homework" are also the ones arguing for "no tracking." So, in your hypothetical, this kid who can do algebra at age 5 would fail his math class but also not get placed in an advanced math track doing calculus at age 6 where he/she belongs.

It's a lose-lose.

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Re:Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the ol... by skyde on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:03PM (#29201647)
I never said there should be no tracking. I am just saying if you want to measure my kid skill do it during school hours instead of forcing him to do an enormous amount of useless work outside school hours
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