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Author aside I thought this was a very interesting answer to a question I didn't know I had. I had been thinking that sending my children to a school with high
by LarsDu88 1y ago
Author aside I thought this was a very interesting answer to a question I didn't know I had.
I had been thinking that sending my children to a school with high achievers could leave her at a relative disadvantage but this data would seem to say otherwise.
I wonder if this conflicts with Malcolm Gladwell's observations on one's relative ranking when it comes to college matriculation (that its more important to be at a high percentile of your institution than your global rank)
- LarsDu88 1y agoAfter looking into the author a bit. Ugh
- chatmasta 1y agoWhat is the answer that you found? All I see is a marginally defensible claim in the 24th paragraph. I stopped reading after that, although there were only a few paragraphs left.
- usrnm 1y agoOne of the unintended but hard to avoid consequences of a high competition education environment is a lot of broken kids. Dealing with constant pressure and failure is hard even for adults, for some children it's literally fatal. Don't forget to consider this as well