Unconventional teacher builds top math program at ordinary FL school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is great. I can’t understand why we can scout high performing athletic kids to high school, but not high performing academic kids. It is totally backward.

Why resurrect this old thread?

This sounds more like segregation taken to a new level. It only benefits a small group not really in everyone's interest.

[Anonymous]

This is not an “ordinary school,” it’s in a college town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not an “ordinary school,” it’s in a college town.

So you believe that justifies segregation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is cool, but not totally surprising that it’s a Gainesville school. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida and Buchholz probably has lots of high achieving professors’ and doctors’ kids who far outperform the average.

If that were the case it would be ranked much higher than 66th and it would have been winning competitions long before he came there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is cool, but not totally surprising that it’s a Gainesville school. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida and Buchholz probably has lots of high achieving professors’ and doctors’ kids who far outperform the average.

If that were the case it would be ranked much higher than 66th and it would have been winning competitions long before he came there

Back in the day, kids at the IB magnet across town were dominating math competitions. Maybe now math kids are staying at (or moving to) Buchholz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is cool, but not totally surprising that it’s a Gainesville school. Gainesville is home to the University of Florida and Buchholz probably has lots of high achieving professors’ and doctors’ kids who far outperform the average.

If that were the case it would be ranked much higher than 66th and it would have been winning competitions long before he came there

Without school support and a good coach, a school would not be winning competitions, regardless of the level of the students. The exception is when there are enough students who practice on their own with sites like AOPS. It is not a matter of just being good at math, the contest math covers different topics than the standard curriculum.
Particularly counting and probability, and number theory.

[Anonymous]

How does this help to solve the achievement gap?