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> San Francisco Unified decided in 2015 to delay algebra till ninth grade and place low, average and high achievers in the same classes. Ugh, I couldn't imagin
by thr0waway001 4y ago
> San Francisco Unified decided in 2015 to delay algebra till ninth grade and place low, average and high achievers in the same classes.
Ugh, I couldn't imagine being a high achieving student and having to be lumped in with people who don't give a shit about their education.
- readthenotes1 4y agoI can, fortunately not until first semester in a state university. I remember asking one of my teachers for a reference when I was transferring and she replied that if I hadn't been in her class she would have thought herself an utter failure because of how little attention the other students paid. Without doing much work I regularly set the curve. I'm not brilliant, but I did study some.
- CydeWeys 4y agoHell, I took honors history instead of AP history my junior year (it was the only class I took that was "merely" honors; everything else was STEM magnet/AP level). And that class sucked, and was way too dumbed down, and was full of people who (comparatively) didn't care about their education. God forbid I would've had to take a normal level class at any point; the boredom might've killed me.
- ams92 4y agoIt’s all just a race to the bottom in the name of “equality”. Everyone with the means to do so is moving out of SF because of the terrible schools, and the kids suffering the most as a result are from poorer families.