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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is the solution alllllllllways to kowtow to the lowest common denominator.

This should be great for America's progress and innovation - knee cap the brightest because half the class are children of illegal migrants who need all sorts of remedial work since they can't even speak English.

People just cannot handle the fact there is also a natural bell curve of intelligence. Stop holding back our best.[/quote]

Well, then you'll be pleased to know this is not what they're doing. Instead, they're raising up lower-performing students by requiring all students to perform at a high level.[/quote]

Nah, that's what they say on paper.  In reality, how this turns out is that they have to expend massive amounts of resources on students of average or low intelligence in these classes, or on students that need tons of remedial work.  Raising the floor drags down classes, because floors shouldn't have to  raised in *honors* classes in the first place. Then they demand honors courses to be watered down because someone, somewhere will inevitably find some group that gets left in the dust when they're taking classes they shouldn't be in. You can't have a specific group failing out more than others, because that wouldn't be 'equality'. Thus in the end, everything goes to crap, because they cater constantly to the lowest performers and use 'equality' to justify it.

I guess equity will be achieved when we are all equally mediocre and/or poor.[/quote]

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