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A school not graduating a child essentially admits its teachers are not good enough to put some basic knowledge into this child's head. No school wants to be i

• ericd 6y ago
  Are you saying that the students bear no responsibility, or that it’s our current attitude that teachers can somehow coerce people to learn?
  • HarryHirsch 6y ago
    The really scary thing is that world-wise bloggers like Scott Aaronson and Siderea think that bullying is an inevitable fact of going to school. Those of us that grew up outside the US know different.
    • jcranmer 6y ago
      Where, pray tell, do you live that bullying is nonexistent? The surveys that I've seen show that bullying is pretty universal. About ⅓ of students worldwide are bullied at some point in their education, and these rates don't change all that much from country to country, although the form of bullying does have drastic differences. (Notably, Europe and the US tend to have less physical bullying and more psychological bullying compared to the rest of the world).
• hrktb 6y ago
  That's surely where the financing model is important. Schools here get money based on the number of students, and the dispatch of teachers is done at a region level depending on the needs. A school with "bad" teachers would just get better teachers if it was warranted (in practice, everyone understands why kids are failing, and they'll send low experience teachers instead, because fuck them, I guess)