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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think everyone knows this. But it's who you're trying to support- top learners benefit from AAP, but taking top learners out of gen ed hurts the bottom learners. [/quote]

How so?[/quote]

But why would you want to hurt the top learners?

What do the top learners owe to the bottom learners?[/quote]

Why should *public* education help the top learners at the expense of those at the bottom? If you don’t like it you can do private or hire a tutor. [/quote]
Currently, *public* education caters to the bottom learners at the expense of the top.  My oldest kid's reading group got to meet with the teacher 15 minutes every second week, while the bottom kids got every day for 30 minutes + another 30 minutes with the resource teacher.  It's unconscionable to abandon the top learners and expect them to teach themselves all day, yet that is exactly what public schools do thanks to No Child Left Behind.

But, for the sake of argument, let's follow your train of thought.  If it's perfectly fine for schools to teach to the bottom, ignore the top, and abolish tracking/AAP, then pretty much every child who is upper middle class will leave for private school.  In turn, schools lose the kids who are easy to educate along with their funding, and the level of discourse in the classroom decreases.  Who is the most hurt by this?  Above average poor kids.  They can't afford private, but now their neighborhood schools aren't bothering to teach them.  Their intellectual peers are off receiving a strong private school education, while they're learning almost nothing.  Even if the achievement gap in the public schools appears lower because the high achievers have mostly left, the real world achievement gap is larger than ever.  [/quote]

You made the correct argument for AAP.  AAP should exist to take above average poor kids out of crappy school environments so they can excel.  More wealthy kids already attend better schools.[/quote]

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