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Was it a good school in a wealthy area? If not, what makes you confident that your peers were falling behind due to some sort of innate inability, instead of a
by greatwave1 3y ago
Was it a good school in a wealthy area?
If not, what makes you confident that your peers were falling behind due to some sort of innate inability, instead of as a result of compounding poor teaching or other environmental factors?
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoWell, I have the same experience, and I went to 11 different schools, including rich and poor ones. And I also got into teaching between dev gigs.
- blitz_skull 3y agoDo factors matter? Unless you can mass edit all the factors, then it remains that some people simply cannot do math past a certain level. But for what it’s worth, it was a very small school in a VERY poor area. (Median income probably at or below $20k / year) The teaching was actually above-average for the area, but probably below average over a national rating. I do think factors matter in my personal anecdote of my particular high school. However my LIFE has reinforced my observations: most people are profoundly bad at math, from a seemingly fundamental level.