defcon4
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It means to dumb down the bright ones to level of the underachievers. Everybody gets a trophy… Lowest common denominatorWelcome to leftist run school system where everybody passes the grade and everybody gets a trophy. That's your own doing and blame somebody else for it, right? Typical and predictable action of the left.The US, richest nation on earth, and education system to not be proud of.
It's not about trophies, it's about substance. Both sides are guilty of playing silly games. But then again the conservative view is often that 1950s education was so much better, when it clearly wasn't.
My daughter is in a public school. One that gets decent marks actually.
A teacher made the point to us that our child was NOT their focus.
She meant it as a good thing.
Because it goes without saying that the problem kids are the focus, those with learning and/or behavioral problems.
I told this story to a friend of mine who is a teacher. She said she has received the identical "good news" that her children were not messed up enough to be the focus of the system.
That's a problem with the whole educational system. We are more concerned with equality, ie getting everyone to the same place at 18, ie ready for college, then helping those who are bright to move onwards and upwards.
That's one problem.