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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's true that the HFA class is truly H level, and kids who wouldn't have failed physics will fail HFA physics, let's discuss that tragedy. Students need to be taught at their level. How can a huge high school like Wilson simply decide to teach  Honors Physics and generously allow non-honors level students to sit in and likely fail? How do we not all agree that the students would be best served by having the options of physics or honors physics?

The reality is that we have no idea whether HFA will be dumbed down and fail to meet the honors students needs or whether it will be kept at honors level and fail average students who would have succeeded in a normal class. But either outcome seems completely unsatisfactory. [/quote]

Yeah.  I get how HFA is intended to avoid an imperfect system of channeling people to the best class, but it creates collateral damage at both the top and the bottom.   Why is that okay?

It seems the best thing to do would be to improve the process for tiering — which there are ways to do — rather than throw the baby out with the bath water.[/quote]

liberals and other SJW consider tiering aka tracking to be racist.  Welcome to the future[/quote]

No we don't.  [/quote]

They consider it racist until they realize that it actually is what would be best for their own kid and then their tune changes...[/quote]

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