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> School ideally goes at an appropriate pace to challenge them. I think it's impossible for school to go at an appropriate pace for everybody, because all stud
by mcv 4y ago
> School ideally goes at an appropriate pace to challenge them.
I think it's impossible for school to go at an appropriate pace for everybody, because all students are different and struggle with different things. Half will be bored, the other half struggling to keep up. And in my son, those halves definitely overlap.
In primary school, he did every possible gifted program they had and then some, skipped a grade, and did all his regular school work in half the time the other kids had. And now he's struggling with everything, doesn't know how to start work, finish work or plan it (despite planning being supposedly a primary focus of his school), and he gets tons of failing grades mostly because he simply doesn't submit his work or misses his tests.
- humanrebar 4y agoI think that's true for the given model of homogeneous, large classroom instruction. I suspect we'll see major revisions in that model in the coming century, at least for those with resources.
- mcv 4y agoHe's in a Montessori school which is supposed to emphasize independent work and planning, but he still has tests and has to hand in assignments, and he clearly fails to plan them or work independently on them. I did a lot better with the homogenous large classroom instruction I got back in the day. Or at least I did better in school. Once I went to university and had to plan everything myself and work independently on it, that's where I started failing. Maybe it's better to fail early? I don't know.