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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you want to write off kids who don’t have fully developed brains. There are lots of reasons kids struggle. Many of these kids can and do turn things around.  [/quote]

There is a “write off” period already. In college if you don’t do well your first two years you aren’t going to be able to declare a competitive major or have greatly diminished chances of going to grad school or obtaining a high prestige job etc.

The only difference here between the current system and mine is that I am moving up the write off period up by four years. I advocate for a 30% rejection rate of middle schoolers, that should be narrow enough to weed out mainly only the truly awful brains.

Yes, some poor performers in middle school will blossom later on, and some high performing middle schools will flounder. But, from my own personal experience the academic performance of most middle schoolers will be strongly correlated with future performance. We shouldn’t be spending more than $15,000 per pupil to find and polish the couples of diamonds under a desert. [/quote]

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