To: SeekAndFind
If you dumb it down for the average student, the gifted student gets bored and starts skipping class.
If you go at a speed for the gifted student, the average student gets lost and never finds their way back.
You cannot treat students as a cooky-cutter assembly line, which is what almost all schools try to do nowadays.
12 posted on
08/08/2012 5:21:28 AM PDT by
Just another Joe
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To: Just another Joe
You cannot treat students as a cooky-cutter assembly line, which is what almost all schools try to do nowadays.
The history of compulsory schooling reveals that this is precisely the model on which our "factory school" system was built.
20 posted on
08/08/2012 5:34:18 AM PDT by
LearsFool
("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
To: Just another Joe
You cannot treat students as a cooky-cutter assembly line, which is what almost all schools try to do nowadays. The US Department of Education has said that it is a violation of civil rights to divide students according to abilities. Seriously.
71 posted on
11/20/2012 7:05:06 AM PST by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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