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Only if you confound "dumb kid" and "problem kid". Certainly, get problem kids out of the equation, but that doesn't mean there isn't some benefit to different
by lol214365 10y ago
Only if you confound "dumb kid" and "problem kid". Certainly, get problem kids out of the equation, but that doesn't mean there isn't some benefit to different cognitive classes coming into contact with one another.
If for no other reason, you don't want the cognitive elite going through life never knowing that the rest of the country are reasonable, functional people instead of fools and rubes.
- clock_tower 10y agoThey're reasonable and functional? That's news to me -- at least for Appalachia, Texas, etc. (Have you read Hillbilly Elgy?)
- ltbarcly3 10y agoHave you ever been to the DMV? The next time you go, look around at the other people you are in line with. That is 'the rest of the country' that you are talking about. They aren't especially functional or reasonable.
- Helmet 10y agoAnd what exactly about them isn't functional or reasonable? I was at the DMV the other day; there were people from all walks of life and they all looked functional and reasonable.
- kakarot 10y agoThat is because of societal and structural neglect. Don't be a part of the problem.
- justin_vanw 10y agoI love how you assert that with such confidence, as though you actually know what you are talking about!
- Sacho 10y agoYou are getting dangerously close to personal attacks, which I believe will detract from your otherwise reasonable points. I think the discussion on HN is one of a few places where you could get appreciation for the problems in the educatiom system and it would be a waste to end it in heated emotional attacks.
- kakarot 10y agoNo, it's just my speculation. It gets tiring prefixing everything I say with "It is my personal belief that"