This is nothing less than child abuse. Intentionally restricting gifted or motivated students is not only abuse, it is madness.
To anyone who has a child, GET THEM OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL NOW!!!
‘intentionally restricting gifted or motivated students is not only abuse, it is madness.’
problem is the entire concept of public schools is abuse from the word go; there are children and young adults who wish to learn, and use education as a way to advance to their future well being, and there are those children and young adults who clearly do not want to learn, and who wish to fart around until they get old enough to realize that they screwed up and have to seek education at a late date in their lives...these two groups should never have been mixed together, they should have been identified and placed in privately run systems designed to accomodate their life visions...yes, this may seem exclusionary, but it would have been totally necessary to make education something worth more than just daycare and great perks for teachers and, even more so, administrators...
too late now, though...public education is a classic example of dreams gone wrong, of transcendentalism run aground on the shoals of reality...