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Some students need to be left behind
by bendbro 3y ago
Some students need to be left behind
- kelseyfrog 3y agoWhich ones are those again?
- stametseater 3y agoThose who can't keep up with the rest. The only alternative is to hold everybody back to the level of the dimwits, and that's atrocious.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoWho gets to decide that?
- rlt 3y agoTest scores?
- kelseyfrog 3y agoTest scores aren't decision making agents. Are you thinking of a person?
- alex_sf 3y agoYou're being intentionally obtuse. If you have the capacity to have an accelerated program for 1,000 students in a district, then you rank by test scores and bring in the top 1,000.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoMy intentions aren't epistemologically accessible to you. What parents commenters are doing is laundering agency through a testing regime. It's part of the process of the absolution of responsibility of consequence. As an aside, it's clear that parent commenters aren't mature enough to be approached socratically. I regret their schools taught them to read and write. They clearly don't want to learn.
- alex_sf 3y agoNo, your intentions are very clear (and naive), you're just wrong.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoSince we're clearly able to read each other's intentions, yours are to disrupt the legitimate line of questioning with a temper tantrum. I hope you see where assuming people's intentions ends up. I know you can do better than that.
- dang 3y agoYou broke the site guidelines badly here. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how provocative other comments were or you feel they were. Fortunately it doesn't look like you've been making a habit of this (at least not from a quick look at the account's recent posts in other threads), so this should be easy to fix. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to using HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.
- dang 3y agoPlease don't break the site guidelines with personal attacks or name-calling. You've done this in other threads too, unfortunately (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35469483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35469483 was particularly bad). We have to ban accounts that post like this, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
- bendbro 3y ago[flagged]
- kelseyfrog 3y ago> I regret that your school didn't bully you enough to realize you shouldn't be an ideologically grotesque nerd. You can bully me here. Let's see what you got.
- dang 3y agoPersonal attacks are not allowed here. Your comment would be fine without the first bit. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- keeganpoppen 3y ago[flagged]
- bobsmooth 3y agoThe dumb ones so that smart kids can actually learn.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoKids who are disruptive/discipline problems. Teachers should not be removing slow students who do not cause issues in the classroom. Teachers should remove disruptive students. Disruptive students lose their learning pass, and all would benefit from such a situation. Teachers becoming disciplinarians is where they become authoritarian, exploitive arbiters of ones future earning potential.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoI'd encourage you to think critically about the design and implementation of such a system, the incentives it would generate and the moral hazards of enacting it. It's not like labeling kids as "unworthy of learning" could be abused.
- dang 3y agoCould you please not take HN threads further into flamewar? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ChainOfFools 3y agoA callous way to put it, but it could also be stated that setting people up for modest success is a much kinder position than setting them up for exceptional failure.
- nobody9999 3y ago>Some students need to be left behind Definitely. Let's start stack ranking[0] in kindergarten and expel (and make that stick nationwide!) the bottom 10% every year.[1] By the time students get to high school, we'll have best schools in the world! Those who have been expelled had already reached their intellectual peak, especially those in primary school. amirite? /s [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve [1] Please use this is a "clear indicator of intent to parody" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- dang 3y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.