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If kids are held back when they fail standards, shouldn't they also be allowed to race ahead when they exceed them?
by zozbot234 6mo ago
If kids are held back when they fail standards, shouldn't they also be allowed to race ahead when they exceed them?
- ihsw 6mo ago[dead]
- bcrosby95 6mo agoOff the top of my head I don't have problem with this, but the topic is about declining scores so I'm not sure how relevant this is.
- eigencoder 6mo agoAbsolutely
- MagicMoonlight 6mo agoNo, because you’ll end up really dysfunctional if you’re a child in a class with 18 year olds.
- nsxwolf 6mo agoAlways used to be the case, is that no longer an option?
- rahimnathwani 6mo agoNot an option in San Francisco. Back in 2022 I spoke with the principal of a nearby government-run school. She told me: - under no circumstances would a kindergarten teacher teach any first grade content, and - grade skip is so rare that she'd seen it only once in her entire career
- datadrivenangel 6mo agoteachers not being able to teach 'higher level' content seems like a huge issue.
- datadrivenangel 6mo agoYes. That's the whole idea of adaptive/personalized learning. There are some interesting ethical questions about disparity of outcomes, but we should aim to have a system that educates each individual as best we can (without leaving kids behind). The current system of bludgeoning every individual student to be the same is not working well.