To: Essie
the smartest are held back and the slowest never catch up.
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Call this what it is: Emotional Child Abuse!
The slower children are forever emotionally frustrated by not being able to keep up. The brighter children are bored to stupefaction.
42 posted on
01/16/2007 8:11:17 AM PST by
wintertime
(Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid)
To: wintertime
"the smartest are held back and the slowest never catch up" Yep. Add to the fact that large numbers of kids in public schools don't speak English as a first language and presto, we have a real problem.
52 posted on
01/16/2007 11:59:39 AM PST by
RKV
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