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When I was in elementary school we had this program called GATE and basically it was like once a month you go to a different school with other GATE students fro
by notus 7y ago
When I was in elementary school we had this program called GATE and basically it was like once a month you go to a different school with other GATE students from the other schools in the district. There would be special classes like oceanography, robotics, etc. I don't think it added any value into my life ever except variety of experience. I also think it made other students who weren't in it feel kind of bad because they didn't get to go do anything. They should have just done it for everyone IMO.
- mjevans 7y agoI agree this likely would have been better for the rest of the students if they too had individualized targeted classes to experience. That'd be a great time for those with strong prospects in sports to receive individualized education with outside coaches/players from those fields. It'd also be a great time for students at risk academically to secretly have tutoring and targeted coverage of core subjects they might be struggling with. However I'm much more hopeful for actually personalized education; like turning school in to more of an MMO-RPG class system where assignments are like the quests in a game and participation on larger projects has real world commons / civic infrastructure improvements. Real mentor-ship and problems in the real world would give practical application to education that I feel would make retention much stronger.