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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad you started this thread. My oldest just finished first grade and I'm a bit shell shocked and overwhelmed. DH and I just can't imagine 11 more years of this. Our teachers have been good, it's just the problems they deal with daily are wild. The classroom spread is huge; one kid was basically a genius and another just came to America a few months ago, didn't know letters and couldn't speak english. The discipline problems are big too.

I remember schools being a magical place filled with bright students who liked to learn, but I was in Gifted. Every school had a regular, honors and then gifted classes, plus ESL for two years until kids learned English. They now have only one class for everyone, so the rich kids have fled to private or sold their homes and moved. [/quote]

Oh, but we can’t have tracking anymore. That would make the lowest achieving kids (and, more importantly, their parents), Feel Bad.  :roll: [/quote]

Yes.

I also remember school being a magical place. I also remember that some kids got As, some got Bs, some got Cs, and some got Ds. You knew if you were an A or B student, you would go to college. You didn't stress out too much about which one. The C and D students were encouraged to take up a trade or go to community college. It was NORMAL. Now, we're pretending that everyone is or should be an A student, and pretending that everyone should go to college. I think this is part of what has wrecked everything. 
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