and they’re been reared

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and we need to let kids fail and re-introduce “streaming” teaching where smart kids can get into classes with smart kids, and unmotivated kids can get put into classes that refocus their learning and fix their fundamentals.

You might be interested to learn that "gifted" classes were introduced as a reaction to integration of black students and students with disabilities. It was always about keeping privileged kids away from the rabble and has little to do with student performance or ability.

same here in late 2000s, and this was in a community college, a large amount of people struggle in remedial math, as well as english, english i can understand because they almost never teach grammar/writing in k-12, but MATH.

we need to let kids fail and re-introduce “streaming” teaching where smart kids can get into classes with smart kids

They've been doing "stream" since I was in school and it made me a worse person. I was pigeonholed into the remedial classes with no way out. No pleading would do it. I was never given target grades to reach to get out. And that was just when I was trying to get into the average classes. At one point, I tried bypassing the and testing into Honors/AP. I was told I failed, but recently, I learned by accident that I passed those tests, but was lied to. The guidance counselor who leaked that to me was surprised I wasn't happy about that and refused to say it was wrong. By the end, they were just telling me that the better classes were full, so I told them I would drop out 3 months from graduation and try again the next year. They thought I was bluffing.

Remedial classes do not focus on fixing anything. They're just dumping grounds for undesirable students. The students are en mass, are unmotivated and bully anyone down that think doesn't belong. I literately heard "What do you expect? We're remedial students" from one of my classmates one time. The teacher just dropped her head.

You want to fix things? Start holding students back. Throw out the participation awards the boomers forced on everyone. Don't just pipeline everyone into community colleges. Or make an actual High School track available in community college. My state supposedly has one, but they make it hard as hell to get any info on it.

CALIFORNIA started doing this because the state unsi suffered from years of low enrollment due to covid, and pre-covid they had to this to survive. the reason behind it was mostly very low-job prospects for most majors, at least for the school i went to. they had to raise tuition and rent prices for (apartments they owned that are for students), and the students are so incensed they tell thier friends, or younger siblings to not attend the school or even go to college. also thier high propensity to transfer to a better 4 year from state uni because the current school sucks ass in career enrichment;development. also the lack of "volunteer experience for stem too which is extremely problematic and only if somehow found how to get into a PI lab". and the faculty interviewed in these school, blamed it on LOW birth rates,yea no thats the least of the problems.

there are people struggling in remedial classes too, in my cc people have taken 2-3 times for remedial and the verge of being blocked from taking the same class in the cc more then 3rd time. 3rd time requires approval by the school to even take.

some school has pre-calculus, pre-chemistry test before you even register for a higher level class. if you dont pass you cant get into these courses.

“All I see is words everywhere,” Ortiz said.

Umm, yes?

Incredible. Small thing, but I was surprised to read “Connecticut.”