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I thought that the Chinese basically 'pruned' their student body. The students that can't keep up with the curriculum are kicked/weeded out.
by pyre 13y ago
I thought that the Chinese basically 'pruned' their student body. The students that can't keep up with the curriculum are kicked/weeded out.
- bane 13y agoI can't say about China particularly, but many school systems route students into entirely different kinds of schools pretty early. Those with good early (elementary or middle school) math and science scores go on to STEM focused high schools and are then routed into STEM programs in Uni. Other kids will end up on a "vocational" track and go to a High School with a strong trade training and essentially do a supervised apprenticeship, if they're really good there they'll go on to a specialized trade school and focus in some kind of trade, instead of changing oil in a car they might rebuild alternators or transmissions or something. I've heard China has done similar routing for several topics of national prestige, kids end up in an Olympic gymnastics or diving program and train in that program until they either make it into the Olympics, fail out or end up as a coach when they're in their single digit ages. I'm not sure about other areas.