The solution is not to pull out a handful of high performers, it’s to kick out the even smaller number of disrupters.
https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/public-sch...
> Wonder what allows a school to at least consider permanent expulsion? The student has to be convicted of:
> murder drug dealing aggravated assault rape possession of a deadly weapon
> But expulsion can be permanent if and only if he or she is over 16 or older. And of course, forget all those criteria for the disability manifestation exclusion–if the student was convicted but disability is the reason for the behavior, no action can be taken.
And any kind of discipline or moving them to special classes or special schools leads to being sued.
Education is not the first or second priority in the school system or things would look quite different.
And I argue this as an education system skeptic and college dropout myself.
Industrialization was raising pollution and standards of living and making it clear that a lack of education wasn't a healthy option - although partially driven by wrong reasons - paranoid anticatholicism that ignores basically all of European history of how much influence the church /actually/ has over secular power.
Even post WW2 industrialization the population was still at a high school diploma as an actual advantage but "optional".
We need more informed not less. Problematically the populace also needs more critical thinking and self guidance while there are many unhealthy attitudes towards learning.
Often they do try to put their bullshit in it but their hamhandedness in practice often backfires by adolescence - especially with their own twisted priorities and misrule related discontent.
And calculators have rendered arithmetic unnecessary for some time. The focus should be on how to use calculation for financial and technical purposes.
The point is that students who are not engaged themselves, and whose parents are not engaged enough to ensure that they go, will no longer make school less valuable for all by their very presence.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/5/17199810/school-disc...
Where do you think all of the funding and resources go when you do that?
https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/public-sch...
> Wonder what allows a school to at least consider permanent expulsion? The student has to be convicted of:
> murder drug dealing aggravated assault rape possession of a deadly weapon
> But expulsion can be permanent if and only if he or she is over 16 or older. And of course, forget all those criteria for the disability manifestation exclusion–if the student was convicted but disability is the reason for the behavior, no action can be taken.
Without punctuation, this sounds like a ridiculously specific and esoteric crime.
That is irrelevant.
This is done, to some extent, via auxillary schools in many affluent areas. If a student is problematic in any myriad of ways, off they are sent to the school with lower standards (often within sight of the other campus). For example, 1994 presidential blue ribbon Brea HS has the Canyon high school meters from its campus, specifically for this purpose.