[Mariner]

For the smart kids, method doesn’t matter.

They just get it. It unfolds as an image in their brain and it’s innate.

The problem is they have to share a classroom and curriculum with 22 retards.

It’s probably the greatest failure of the education infrastructure.

They could have been somebody.

[hanamizu]

“For the smart kids, method doesn’t matter. They just get it. It unfolds as an image in their brain and it’s innate. The problem is they have to share a classroom and curriculum with 22 retards.

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Yes, but in the 50s all but the retards actually did get it. Average kids, below-average kids mastered the skills. They might not like it, might not enjoy doing it, but the fact is, they could. Only a few would be held back. Now only the exceptional seem to get it in spite of lessons aimed at their less bright classmates.

The American public school system did a pretty good job of educating students, ‘back in the day’ using methods that have been rejected by all ‘right-thinking’ people to be replaced by methods that seem to fail every time they are deployed.