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The article is about a kid who ranked in the upper 50% -- they chose to do a story about him because this means he's not an outlier, he's the norm for this scho
by idrios 6y ago
The article is about a kid who ranked in the upper 50% -- they chose to do a story about him because this means he's not an outlier, he's the norm for this school. It's very likely that failing / skipping class is the only way to fit in, that students who put in too much effort or do too well get beaten up or worse for it. The school's faculty also probably understands the problem better than anyone else, but doesn't have the resources to provide a solution. Smaller classes helps but you need more funding to pay more teachers to do that. And any problems at home the school has no control over.
- dmix 6y ago> It's very likely that failing / skipping class is the only way to fit in, that students who put in too much effort or do too well get beaten up or worse for it. Bingo. Not the only thing of course (as you mention some issues with schools government funding structures) but a critical one. Although I've learned talking about culture is often taboo in academia and polite serious conversation. You have to be extremely careful so many don't breach the subject at all, so it gets ignored like many important obvious things. Like "The Wire" it's easier to show it in it's raw form than to analyze it in discussion or in papers. But still it's a giant elephant in the room which I experienced heavily as a poor performing student early on in my life. Before I (fortunately out of circumstance with my single mother) moved to a better environment and set of friends.
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