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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But none of this changes that fact that hard work doesn't always equal academic success.[/quote]

Very untrue. Education is about meritocracy. Hard work does equal academic success if the class is conducted by a professional. Teaching is harder than people realize and you have a huge impact on what your students take away from the class. The first few years that I taught, my students worked really hard and didn't produce great work. I could have chalked this up to well the material is too hard. In reality, it was me. I added more feedback so students would know what I expect and were incentivized to learn from their mistakes. I gave students examples of what would be considered successful. I gave them access to outside resources so that as long as they were willing to work, and work hard, they could do as well as the students who just magically got what I was babbling about in lecture.

As someone with a STEM background, the 2.0 standards are lower not higher. There is a real problem though that the teachers have not had ample time to understand how to teach the new material. Even a lower standard with a different method requires substantial work to change the materials. The curriculum office has failed teachers and not provided basic let alone rich materials for them to use. The worksheets are poorly constructed and many miss the mark on the concept that is being attempted to be taught.

Its a bad situation and we'll have several years of students with a very sub par education as a result.

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