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There's no point in designing schools for "three sigma". Schools should be designed to push the median upwards. "Three sigmas" should be homeschooled, any suffi
by avip 8y ago
There's no point in designing schools for "three sigma". Schools should be designed to push the median upwards. "Three sigmas" should be homeschooled, any sufficiently large system will only inhibit them.
- neffy 8y ago"Three sigmas" and above aren't distributed only in the population of people capable of home schooling very bright children.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoFunny thing though - home schooling so easily beats the institutional kind, you don't have to be very good at it to school very bright children. Further, if the teacher at school with their class of 30 did nothing but tutor the students, each student would get 10 minutes (in a 5-hour school day). You as a parent can beat that the 1st 11 minutes of your home-school day. That leaves you hours of the day for moving ahead of the classroom.
- jdietrich 8y ago>"Three sigmas" should be homeschooled, any sufficiently large system will only inhibit them. Many (most) parents don't have the resources to do that. If we don't make adequate provisions for the exceptionally gifted, we're squandering a lot of valuable talent. Nobody would tolerate a child with an IQ of 55 being made to sit in a mainstream classroom, because it's obvious that they wouldn't get anything vaguely resembling an education; we should be equally outraged about a child with an IQ of 145 in that mainstream classroom.
- toasterlovin 8y agoYou’ll have enough gifted students in any reasonably sized metro area to fill a special school. That’s what should be done, IMO.