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>"All the debt is assumed to vanish when you start a new session. Nobody acknowledges that the kid has been collecting debt for a decade now"

I think you articulate it really well. It speaks to me at a personal level because my stunted academic growth in college still affects me today, and it will never go away.

Good luck with Filo!

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I feel you more than ever. We started identifying this long-term debt as `non-linear learning gaps'. As other folks have called out, large chunk of students in higher grades or higher ed need to understand the most basic of stuff referring back to multiple years of grades in their past. The good part is you can do that in a human conversation, go back or ahead of your current grade-level seamlessly in a conversation as your mind creates a mental-model of what you are learning. The 'going-ahead' part is specially important as it build perspective into 'why' of learning a concept.

In short, we believe the long-term debt is fixable.

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