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Kyuubi4269 posted...

I'd rather low IQ students could be abandoned from education so the teachers don't waste their time trying to get them to pick up basic skills while the rest of the class is waiting to learn something.

Kinda why schools have track systems.

adjl posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

I'd rather low IQ students could be abandoned from education so the teachers don't waste their time trying to get them to pick up basic skills while the rest of the class is waiting to learn something.

Speaking as somebody who spent pretty much the entirety of the primary and secondary schooling process waiting for the rest of the class to catch up to how quickly he learned things, I quite disagree. Boredom sucks, but if you're actually smart enough to have all that free time to be bored, you can use it to help other kids out and take some of the load off of the teacher. Teaching stuff is the best way to learn it anyway, so everybody wins in that case.

That's a massively inefficient system. While hardcore liberals dislike ideas like the track system, schools really need to separate high-performers, moderate-performers, and low-performers to better accommodate them. Otherwise you waste the high-performers' potential while not properly serving low-performers.

And sure, it exacerbates educational outcomes but you should never try to achieve equality by holding people down. That's just fucking stupid.
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