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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe that society is much better off when schools support struggling kids and those with special needs. 
The gifted kids will do well in most cases regardless. The only time that they absolutely need differentiation is by age 14 [/quote]
Unfortunately, there isn’t really a silver bullet to help struggling kids. So many ideas have been tried and a staggering amount of money has been spent chasing this effort. Nothing’s been proven to work outside of phonics and FARMs. Even universal pre k has had mixed results. It’s just really hard to overcome a bad set of parents or a bad home life. The student has to be unusually motivated.

In the meantime we drive away academically focused families by throwing them under the bus. “They’ll be fine anyway” is terrible policy. Parents who care about education don’t want to see their children unchallenged and bored.

That doesn’t mean we should ignore struggling kids, but we need to come to terms with the limits of what schools can accomplish. We shouldn’t be so hyper focused on struggling kids that we ignore everyone and everything else.[/quote]

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