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To: craig_eddy; dighton; aculeus
They worry students from Spanish-speaking households -- 65 percent of Gilroy High's 2,300 students -- won't enroll in honors classes even if they can do the work because their parents aren't aware the classes exist and won't push their children to take them.

What kind of cock-a-manie reasoning is this? Is the honors program a secret? Teachers identify those students who have the capability to handle more advanced courses and the kids usually don't have to be "pushed". For the trigger-happy amongst you, I'm ready.

17 posted on 07/09/2002 11:54:21 AM PDT by Orual
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To: Orual; craig_eddy; aculeus; general_re
Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma -- Beelzebub, what a useful word! -- by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT.

-- C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Proposes a Toast.


22 posted on 07/09/2002 12:06:14 PM PDT by dighton
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