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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IQ is very stable by the time kids are in middle school. It would make sense kick out everyone that scores below 85, if their grades are bad or they have behavioral issues. This group is exceedingly unlikely to benefit from further education if they are already struggling in school. [/quote]

IQ is stable by 2nd grade, has zero to do with how much someone benefits from further education.  People with any IQ level benefit from lifelong education.  This is retrograde thinking.[/quote]

You mean: people with any IQ benefit from lifelong learning IF they show up ready to learn. If not, no one in that classroom of any IQ is getting an education! Please take a sub job & see what is happening.[/quote]

I definitely do not want to live in a country where people decide who is deserving or not of a secondary school education based on their perceptions (valid or not) of who is showing up ready to learn and who is "deserving" of an education.  There are a lot of potential consequences from this than are way worse than a percentage of the current high school population not engaging in education.[/quote]

It's easy to have this sentiment if one grew up in an almost exclusively middle class and up area, with little to no poverty in the suburbs in the 90s, where there wasn't a "significant" amount of deadbeats in high school and when standards were high and maintained. I would know, as that was my background and I had the same feelings as prior poster. I invite the prior poster to take a look at the ridiculous grading policies these days and the compositions of some of the high schools around here, and your opinion may change quite rapidly. These are kids that haven't "awakened their potential" or anything along those lines, they are disruptive and put little to no work in school. [/quote]

Well you'll be happy to know that I grew up in a city in a working class neighborhood with plenty of disruptive kids.  Kids regularly got into major fights in the hallways, including using padlocks around their fingers.  Classes were regularly out of control.  I still think we all deserved an education. I am committed to democracy and education without exception.[/quote]

Wow - this is why there should be private school vouchers. No one should have to go to school in an unsafe environment. My daughter was getting pushed into lockers and called racial slurs at an FCPS school, and we moved. Now I never worry about safety. Luckily, we could afford to do that.[/quote]

Unfortunately private school vouchers just deplete the public funds and don't provide enough to actually afford private schools for the many children --and they decide who can attend. Many rural areas do not have private schools or only have religious schools catering to a particular religion. I firmly hold the opinion: everyone deserves a free public education through secondary school and that vouchers undermine public schools.  If you want a private school, that's a private good in my opinion.  Work to improve public schools, provide alternate approaches to education including career and technical education, but public schools are essential to democracy.[/quote]

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