Why not close the achievement gap from the top down?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: ^ Resources wasn't “taken” from the tall kid since it was never there's to begin with. Public education is literally the government’s responsibility.

Of course resources were taken from the taller kid. In the first panel, everyone is given resources equally. In the equity panel, the government has used a Marxist system of resource redistribution to reallocate resources so that the taller kid is dragged down and the shorter kid is dragged up.

[Anonymous]

The tall kid was raised well nourished by their parents. The short one is short due to food poverty. The government intervenes early and gives the kid the food their parents couldn’t/wouldn't provide .

Now BOTH kids receives what they need to thrive to their full height potential.

Prince Harry flunked his A- levels. Despite having the most privileged education available in England, as a prince, there was a point of diminishing return where Harry’s inherit intelligence and work ethic could no longer be improved by outside resources.

The goal of equity should be that every kid’s maximum potential is reached, meaning that a poor kid with greater potential will outperform a richer one with lower potential. We are not there yet, hello lax bros on Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: The tall kid was raised well nourished by their parents. The short one is short due to food poverty. The government intervenes early and gives the kid the food their parents couldn’t/wouldn't provide .

Now BOTH kids receives what they need to thrive to their full height potential.

Prince Harry flunked his A- levels. Despite having the most privileged education available in England, as a prince, there was a point of diminishing return where Harry’s inherit intelligence and work ethic could no longer be improved by outside resources.

The goal of equity should be that every kid’s maximum potential is reached, meaning that a poor kid with greater potential will outperform a richer one with lower potential. We are not there yet, hello lax bros on Wall Street.

We get it, you're a Marxist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: The tall kid was raised well nourished by their parents. The short one is short due to food poverty. The government intervenes early and gives the kid the food their parents couldn’t/wouldn't provide .

Now BOTH kids receives what they need to thrive to their full height potential.

Prince Harry flunked his A- levels. Despite having the most privileged education available in England, as a prince, there was a point of diminishing return where Harry’s inherit intelligence and work ethic could no longer be improved by outside resources.

The goal of equity should be that every kid’s maximum potential is reached, meaning that a poor kid with greater potential will outperform a richer one with lower potential. We are not there yet, hello lax bros on Wall Street.

Sounds great, but the way this works today is they withhold food from the tall kid to make the shorter, malnourished one look better because even if the gov just gave them food, they wouldn't eat it. This is equity in action.

[Anonymous]

Why not send the low achievers to 3rd world countries? USA for academic high achievers and rich only. Let's do some smart immigration that works both ways. Valuable humans coming to US, waste of space humans leaving US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not send the low achievers to 3rd world countries? USA for academic high achievers and rich only. Let's do some smart immigration that works both ways. Valuable humans coming to US, waste of space humans leaving US?

That is awful! And how Canada does it!!

You are not seriously suggesting we lower ourselves in the US to such despicable measures as someplace like, Canada ?!??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not send the low achievers to 3rd world countries? USA for academic high achievers and rich only. Let's do some smart immigration that works both ways. Valuable humans coming to US, waste of space humans leaving US?

That is awful! And how Canada does it!!

You are not seriously suggesting we lower ourselves in the US to such despicable measures as someplace like, Canada ?!??

Canada simply has a “point system” for immigration, meaning anyone can apply.

However, an applicant is assigned points based on the level of their educational attainment, and only those with the highest number of points are allowed to emigrate to Canada.

Unskilled, uneducated people are kept out of Canada this way.

[Anonymous]

Seattle has taken a bold step in closing the racial achievement gap:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266205/Seattle-closes-gifted-talented-schools-racial-inequities.html

[Anonymous]

Here is a local example of progressives making politically-driven policy decisions to close the achievement gap “from the top down” by removing opportunities for accelerated / advanced learners across the entire state of Virginia:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1198653.page

[Anonymous]

Here is what the progressives were planning to do to Virginia, in the name of “equity:”





This was the plan, before a bipartisan coalition of parents - particularly in NOVA - discovered the progressives’ plan, and stopped them from ruining public education in the Commonwealth.

[Anonymous]

No matter the virtue of the motive, closing the achievement gap from the top down will be extremely harmful to the United States as a whole and will make this country less competitive internationally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No matter the virtue of the motive, closing the achievement gap from the top down will be extremely harmful to the United States as a whole and will make this country less competitive internationally.

Which is what leftists want because they hate the US.

[Anonymous]

Lefties don’t hate the US. They just have a naive view of what government and schools can accomplish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:China and Russia aren't going to hold back their best and brightest. If we want to remain globally competitive, neither should we.

Plus, unless you intend to force all kids to attend public schools that will teach everyone the exact same thing, you're just going to encourage wealthier people to put their kids in private school or to homeschool. This will increase the achievement gap.

Most of the top math students in America are Asian.

And that includes India, China, S.Korea, Japan etc. Most of their parents are college educated and they will be educating their children in Advance Calculus at home if need be. Achievement gap thus cannot be closed from the top.

Unfortunately, it is been proved time and again that it cannot be closed from the bottom either.

The only way to close the achievement gap is to foster the low achievers in high achieving families. Because you cannot make up for the dysfunctional home environment and the poorly educated parents who have these low performing kids. You need to switch out the parents.

[Anonymous]

I think we should simultaneously educate the parents of these children so that they can educate their children. Send the parents of poor performers to K-12 schools so that they can at least learn Math and English.