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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a teacher, I am pro-tracking.  I also don’t like that students can enroll in AP or Honors if they just feel like it.   Differentiation is impossible with the class sizes we are dealing with.[/quote]

Oh it’s possible with even larger class sizes as they do in China, Singapore and South Korea. But you don’t have the skills and ability to do that which is a problem. Math teachers in the US suck.[/quote]

My friend grew up in South Korea. Kids would spend hours after school in fee-paying cram schools for more instruction. He said all of the students did this, even kids whose parents had to work multiple jobs to pay for it. Here in this country, not all parents value education (or they say they do but don't back it up with action). They had a much more uniform group of students in schools to teach. So it didn't matter if they had 60 kids in their classes. They were all prepared and ready for instruction on level. [/quote]

They still do. A friend of mine is from Singapore and she commented that she wished her parents had not been as academically focused because she was enjoying exploring new activities with her kids in Minnesota. Both she and her husband have PhDs and love learning but her description of her childhood was lots of studying and music practice with little down time. She always mentions the malls that are all tutoring operations in Singapore and how they are open until 11 PM 7 days a week.

South Korea and Japan close down airports during testing days so that the sounds of planes taking off and landing don't disturb the kids during testing. Academics are seen in a very different light then they are in the US. [/quote]

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