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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secrets-of-americas-greatest-high-school-math-team-11657791000
The extraordinary thing about the Buchholz math team is how ordinary Buchholz is. It’s ranked 66th among schools in Florida and outside the top 1,000 across the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. But at the annual championships of Mu Alpha Theta, the national math honor society, the Buchholz kids have trouble counting the shiny objects they lug home.
A very ordinary class of kids in America:
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All of the kids in the picture just happen to be Asian.
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HAHAHAHHA. It never will.
The current political trends are moving in the exact opposite direction. Education advocates keep claiming that academic tracking (i.e. grouping kids by aptitude) does not help the smart kids. It's all because you end up with 🏀s and 🌮s in the remedial track.
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Teaching the dumb kids is more important than teaching the kids who will go to space and cure cancer
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That's what these so-called "education advocates" unironically believe. This is why I think that the left is a bigger threat to the American educational system than the right. Sure, the right wants to defund it and construct a system of vouchers, but if you ignore the remedial students who aren't going to thrive no matter what (see the Kansas City experiment), education can actually be quite cheap. There is a libertarian who created a chain of schools in the Research Triangle area - tuition is about $6k, which is $3k less than the local school district which is often described as underfunded.
Tl;dr: Brown v Board of Ed was a mistake. I'm celebrating the anniversary of Milliken v Bradley in a few days.
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Thomas Sowell talks about a voucher charter school that's inside the same building as a public school (they rent out a portion of the building) and the kids grades were something like 2x better than the public schools:
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Charter schools are a hilarious touchpoint for shitlibs. There is shitlib organization that makes me seethe nonstop called Integrated Schools, where a bunch of white saviors advocate for sending your kid to a Title I school for ... reasons (white guilt seems to be the main one). Anyway, they have a podcast and on an early episode they interview a black dude trying to improve education for minorities. And it was hilarious when he calls them out on charter schools:
I remember arguing with some white/Asian shitlib neighbors about this, because they were so opposed to charter schools supposedly destroying the public education system, and I was pointing out that the public education system was already failing black kids and opposing charter schools simply means that the black kids with involved parents have to go to failing schools with disruptive classmates (and let's be honest, the reason a school is failing or successful is entirely a function of its students). Every single black person I've met with kids in a charter school absolutely loves it.
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Public schools being shit for some kids is intentional. There's no secret sauce that only charter schools have access to. Allowing some kids to succeed while others fall behind is seen as a bad thing, so they mix every kid into the same classrooms regardless of performance. They could flip a switch and fix public schools over night, if they wanted to allow that then charter schools would be unnecessary.
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It's not intentional, it's the result of an ideology that values equity above education. Sowell is incorrect in the above video when he says that charter schools aren't engaged in "skimming the cream" - they absolutely are, they are skimming the students whose parents care enough to fill out the charter school application.
You are right though; public schools could easily flip a switch and recapture these students if they simply offered charter-like schools where parents simply had to apply. But the public school advocates are overly concerned about the students left behind, rather than the classmates the left-behind students are currently holding back.
When I listened to the Nice White Parents podcast, this really stuck out to me. The podcast follows a school where a bunch of white parents, unable to get into one of the French-immersion schools in the city, create a new French-immersion program at a failing school. Everybody was decrying those parents, but never stopped to consider why the school district was so allergic to expanding such an oversubscribed program. Demand clearly outstrips supply, but the problem isn't with government bureaucrats improperly allocating resources (the resource in this case being the kinds of seats available in different educational programs), but a bunch of white parents initiating a program like this on their own.
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Impressive. Normally people with such severe developmental disabilities struggle to write much more than a sentence or two. He really has exceded our expectations for the writing portion. Sadly the coherency of his writing, along with his abilities in the social skills and reading portions, are far behind his peers with similar disabilities.
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GIVE ME A BREAK LONGPOSTBOT. CAN'T YOU TELL I'M REALLY SEETHING ABOUT THIS.
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Thinly veiled racism? Really?
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@aaa, you have wingcuck-posted (YIKES), this is not okay. Given that you are already on the Wingcuck Watchlist I have no choice but to issue this chud award.
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That wasn't even thinly veiled. You spend a lot of time here. Trans lives matter.
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