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Great cognitive leaps often end with awful crashes. Assumptions and presumptions are likewise fraught with danger. One can be 100% right about certain facts but if one makes false connections or attributions, one does not end up in a good place.
Public schools have phenomenal potential and have benefitted certain segments of the population significantly. They should be open to all and fully funded by government and their funding should not be shorted or reduced to fund private ventures designed …
Cynics label the schools as nothing more than babysitters.
Not "grievous error to pretend that they can educate."
From my perspective as someone once familiar with the juvenile justice system, school discipline cases, hearing childhood disability cases, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA,) formerly the Handicap Act of 1973 cases, I'm big on the IEP, individualized educational prescription and think that all students, not just "exceptional"" students benefit from a plan based on a kid's aptitude and potential.
You got that right. High School bored the hell out of me. I spent most of my time day dreaming or being sent to the counselors office, finally just stopped attending. Boring, so boring, I could pass the tests just listening and regurgitating the drone of the teacher,to no avail. I refused to take notes, I got writers cramp. I learned more at the public library than I did in class. I learned about the Holocaust in 1954 from Five Chimney's, The story of an Auschwitz Survivor.. published in 1946.
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Some districts use an IEP for all students.
We did some "illegal" things. We had "tracking," and the 4th track were s-l-o-w. Before we knew about learning disabilities. Some of those slow learners became business owners, hired people who were in the 1st track. We had a huge dropout rate.
When I was in school we had "football study hall" which imparted relatively high test scores. We had 11 assistant football coaches, most taught math and science, some taught at the college level. Some later went on to become college coaches.
Later, through Title I, Chapter 1, we had a "schools without failure" program. amazon.com/Schools-With…
some of our teachers were nationally recognized. Several wrote masters theses about it, proselytized it.
We had a terrific grants writer, and one of our principals when I was a kid developed an experimental reading program. The draft had something to do with it but a huge proportion of male students went into education.
Today, despite what Elliott says, minority students thrive in that system. Small town. Poor. Crime ridden. Kids win national competitions in stuff like science, robotics.