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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Throwing resources at low performers absolutely will lift them up. And if your kid is really a high performers, they will be a high performer with or without resources. [/quote]

Yep. Most high performing kids do well at any school. Their test scores say high wherever they go.

Why spend more money catering to kids who [b]will be fine[/b] either way instead of focusing on kids who need the extra help? [/quote]

Tell me you don't have a top performer without telling me... It's not about "doing fine". The kids are wasting their time, going excruciatingly slowly over stuff they already know. This happens even at the magnets.[/quote]

[b]And there are low performers who are wasting their time in classes where they are behind and need more attention to catch up[/b]. Without the extra attention, they are too far behind to learn anything.

There aren't enough resources to go around. I'd rather have my tax dollars help the low performers because the high performers will be just fine. Boredom does not cause illness in an otherwise healthy child. Now is a good time to figure out if your child might have some underlying issues.

You can pick up a second job to afford paying private school for your high performer instead of being so entitled that you have to make stupid assumptions concerning people who disagree with you. Spend your energy wisely.

I was a high performer who went to community college, still scored  in the 99 percentile on the LSAT and ended up in an Ivy league law school. I have a friend from a similar background who is a cardiologist. We might have been bored throughout school, but we are just fine.

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They cannot catch up and will never catch up. They need to leave school as early as possible and go on with their lives. Both low and high performers are trapped at schools for too long. The schools could least in principle serve top performers because there is a lot of stuff they could learn.[/quote]

Very low students might never catch up with top performers, but that means that they really do need all 13 years of public education so that they can develop their reading, writing, math, and critical thinking skills as much as possible before adulthood.

I’ve seen students make huge leaps even after age 15 when they had access to reading intervention on a daily basis. It’s expensive and time consuming, but it makes the difference between being functionally illiterate and being an average reader.

A functionally illiterate person is likely stuck in working minimum wage jobs doing physical labor. They will end up with late fees, penalties, and other financial issues because they cannot understand their lease, bills, and other important documents. They cannot help their children with homework. This can create the next generation of the functionally illiterate. I’m all for spending what we can to break the cycle.

This administration is pushing for teenage births so we get a lot of unskilled workers who lack the ability to advocate for themselves. Encourage dropouts is just one step on that path.[/quote]

Our neighbor was able to stay in school until he was 21 (I think maybe 22). He learned how to live alone, pay bills, get a job washing and folding sheets at a hospital, lives independently. Much more important to me than your kid going Ivy and working for a hedge fund. [/quote]

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