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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, to sum up, a math teacher who can “scout” his own students from a bunch of college professors’ kids wins math competitions? Wow. Call me when he gets a random group of kids and can do the same thing. [/quote]

It's disturbing that people don't realize this is rigged. [/quote]

and are using this to promote the idea that the slow kids need to be kept away from the bright kids.

I have a bright kid with an IEP who was always stuck in the lowest level classes. They got the worst teachers. His freshman english class was useless. He said they learned nothing and repeated the same grammar lesson again and again. [/quote]

To play devil's advocate here, perhaps some kids in that class needed that much repetition? Maybe your kid wasn't where he should have been - he needed to be in a class that went a little faster. This is exactly the argument for AAP.

FWIW, lousy/lazy teachers don't show up only in gen Ed. For just one example, I had an honors MS English teacher that did nothing all year but give us word search puzzles because he assumed we didn't need instruction because we were the smart kids. His gen Ed classes actually got taught things[/quote]

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