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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not enabling. Enlightened teachers and school districts allow this. If you are an educator and at all up on modern educational theory, you'll know that the focus is enabling a kid to learn material, even if it takes multiple tries.

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Right, but the college admission folks better know that these kids have a cake walk in high school.  Not fair when comparing to kids in other schools that truly have good study skills.  I think it is enabling.  The kid with an A who took the test twice is not as smart or hard working as the kid who got it right the first time.
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Not as smart? Maybe, maybe not. More aggressive/hard working because they are willing to work twice as hard as a "smarter" kid? Maybe.... and colleges care about that kind of kid.
I have one kid who has a memory that is stunning. Never has to study-hears it or reads it once and he's golden. Straight A's. And I have one kid whose IQ is "low average", who has a disability as well. She has to work three or four times as hard as my other kid, but she does it. Takes tests twice often. Straight A's.

Who do colleges want more? Which kind of kid? Who will be more successful in life?

It's not as easy as filling colleges with the "smartest" kids.  [/quote]

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