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That's horrible. Smarter kids could get a better education, but they can't, because the teachers have to deal with illiterate kids that don't want to learn in t

That's horrible. Smarter kids could get a better education, but they can't, because the teachers have to deal with illiterate kids that don't want to learn in the first place.

throwaway27448 5mo ago
Maybe if we tried to educate all our kids instead of just the rich ones they wouldn't be illiterate
- ajsnigrutin 5mo ago
  Some kids are just stupid, and it doesn't matter if they're rich or poor, there's nothing you can do about it. No need to keep everyone at the stupidest kids level.
  - throwaway27448 5mo ago
    Half of them are in AP classes. let's not pretend our methods of sorting kids into castes makes any sense. Let's be honest: this is about money and attention, and you want to grind the poor kids into dust
    - ajsnigrutin 5mo ago
      It's not about money, you're the one who just thinks about money. Maybe, by your logic, if someone gave you $100 now, you'd become smarter and look wider... but probably not. Sorting into better highschools and worse ones, and better classes and worse was done even back in my times, in what used to be yugoslavia, with communism, red stars and a dictator. You want better kids to excell as much as they can, and you want the stupid kids to at least learn to read and write for their boring communist factory jobs for the next 40 years, even if they never get to learn how to solve differential eqations... if you keep the kids together, the stupid ones still won't be able to do basic math and there would be no time left over for the smarter ones to learn more. There was no correlation between money and stupidity of kids. Some kids are smart enough to become engineers, some can barely read, there's no need for them to be in the same classroom.
      - throwaway27448 5mo ago
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        tracker1 5mo ago
        The post you are replying to is literally talking about actual communism. Education in communism will leave anyone underperforming behind... You'll get shuffled of into a vocational school young and injected into the workforce early. Do you really think communism expends extra effort on underperforming students? No they get shuffled off as soon as prudent.
- tracker1 5mo ago
  We do... The VAST majority of kids go through public education... It's mostly a matter of effort, and that comes down to mostly parent pressure on having their kids do the work. Maybe if we actually held kids that can't do the work back, they wouldn't be illiterate. Let social pressure do the work it's meant to. For that matter, let parents do the work they're supposed to.
  - throwaway27448 5mo ago
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That's horrible. Smarter kids could get a better education, but they can't, because the teachers have to deal with illiterate kids that don't want to learn in the first place.

throwaway27448 5mo ago

Maybe if we tried to educate all our kids instead of just the rich ones they wouldn't be illiterate

ajsnigrutin 5mo ago
Some kids are just stupid, and it doesn't matter if they're rich or poor, there's nothing you can do about it. No need to keep everyone at the stupidest kids level.
- throwaway27448 5mo ago
  Half of them are in AP classes. let's not pretend our methods of sorting kids into castes makes any sense. Let's be honest: this is about money and attention, and you want to grind the poor kids into dust
  - ajsnigrutin 5mo ago
    It's not about money, you're the one who just thinks about money. Maybe, by your logic, if someone gave you $100 now, you'd become smarter and look wider... but probably not. Sorting into better highschools and worse ones, and better classes and worse was done even back in my times, in what used to be yugoslavia, with communism, red stars and a dictator. You want better kids to excell as much as they can, and you want the stupid kids to at least learn to read and write for their boring communist factory jobs for the next 40 years, even if they never get to learn how to solve differential eqations... if you keep the kids together, the stupid ones still won't be able to do basic math and there would be no time left over for the smarter ones to learn more. There was no correlation between money and stupidity of kids. Some kids are smart enough to become engineers, some can barely read, there's no need for them to be in the same classroom.
    - throwaway27448 5mo ago
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      - tracker1 5mo ago
        The post you are replying to is literally talking about actual communism. Education in communism will leave anyone underperforming behind... You'll get shuffled of into a vocational school young and injected into the workforce early. Do you really think communism expends extra effort on underperforming students? No they get shuffled off as soon as prudent.
tracker1 5mo ago
We do... The VAST majority of kids go through public education... It's mostly a matter of effort, and that comes down to mostly parent pressure on having their kids do the work. Maybe if we actually held kids that can't do the work back, they wouldn't be illiterate. Let social pressure do the work it's meant to. For that matter, let parents do the work they're supposed to.
- throwaway27448 5mo ago
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