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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Boston School Committee voted unanimously early this morning to suspend the use of an exam to decide who gets into the city's three exam schools for the next year because of a raft of problems brought up by the Covid-19 pandemic, in a meeting that lasted more than 8 1/2 hours.

The committee approved a system in which the first 20% of seats at Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the O'Bryant School of Mathematics are offered to Boston students with the highest pre-Covid grades in BPS, charter, private and religious schools. The remaining 80% would be offered in rounds based on grades in individual Zip codes, starting with those Zip codes with the lowest median incomes for families with at least one child under 18 - an effort to help low-income students whose families have been hit particularly hard by Covid-19.[/quote]

Grades .ne. Intellectual Capacity (g). A student with good grades is by definition succeeding in their school, though perhaps not reaching their full potential.

Technology today means that public schools really should move to a cost-effective industrial school for students in the fat middle ground of performance, plus being educator of last resort for the most difficult students. Everyone else should be able to take their public education funds and seek to answer their own student's special needs in a liberal market of educators, tutors, online courses, and childcare providers.

Vouchers. Very liberal vouchers, with annual "proof of progress".  [/quote]

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