“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.
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.
“Average kids, below-average kids mastered the skills.”
White and Asian kids.
Black and brown never did.
‘Only a few would be held back.’
this is a very sore topic with me, as it represents failure on several levels; of comprehension, of ethic, and of will...but I sucked at math...
you would not believe my level of bafflement on the subject of Plane Geometry...