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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you think people have difficulty accepting the notion that despite equal opportunity in learning, there won't be equal outcomes in learning? Or that unequal outcomes are the fault of someone other than the learner?

There are a few ideas that people like me have difficulty accepting:
1.  When you track students into low ability tracks, the notion of equal opportunity to learn does not exist.  
2.  The notion of "equal" outcomes doesn't exist right now in our schools because of the narrowing of the curriculum and our current testing obsession.  Outcomes are much broader than a test score.
3.  Yes, indeed, unequal outcomes are the fault of MANY societal issues, not simply the learner.
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All the best instruction in the world is not going to transform my child into LeBron James.  I am not shocked, offended, or cheated by this.  Is it outside the realm of possibility that all the best instruction in the world is not going to transform your child into Einstein?  When your child doesn't become the next Einstein, yet someone else's child does, does that mean it's the school's fault?  Was the instruction not properly differentiated?[/quote]

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