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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m glad they renamed it. But GE classes were so very slow and boring. It’s just tracking which has been around forever. Not every kid is the same. [/quote]

Tracking is racist.  Every child IS equal. [/quote]

Nope.

Just like not all adults can be doctors, engineers, or physicists, not all kids can go in that direction either.

The problem you are having is that you think that all children should be able to do stem jobs. That’s just not the case. Moreover, those stem scientists are most likely not great at being teachers or working in customer service or making incredible art.

What you want is for people to value those  kids at the same levels as doctors and lawyers. And I agree. We should value those who nurture our kids, create art for us to enjoy, and think differently because they add value to society in unmeasurable ways. Unfortunately, we are a production and metric based society still.

You should read the following:

Harrison Bergeron
Flowers for Algernon
Wrinkle in Time

When people talk about getting rid of AAP- I think of Harrison Bergeron and Flowers for Algernon. It is almost always a selfish instinct to pull down other kids to raise your kids up. But they are kids- they all need time to figure out what their special thing is. And when they do- we shouldn’t chain them down otherwise. And we shouldn’t devalue someone for being different. 
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