None of us is as dumb as all of us
Holding advance kids back? Our education ‘system’ is hosed.
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July 28th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Usually I hear the word as “advanced” rather than “advance” for this usage
July 28th, 2011 at 10:30 am
Put the whole thing online and be done with it. If anyone want’s the brick and mortar babysitting model let them pay a user fee. In fact, a user fee….just 100.00 per semester, would get families involved, raise money and ought to be used to cut the property tax owners a break.
Balance the budget….on the backs of the users!
July 28th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Went through this myself. Then went through it again in private school.. According to their in the box teachers nobody could learn that fast.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:20 am
We just had “meet your teacher” day for our son’s kindergarten. The curriculum was on the board, he’s past every single “goal” for the upcoming year. I’m preparing for lots of parent-teacher conferences in regards to bored-kid syndrome.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:23 am
I had trouble with that. I was an early reader. In first grade I went through the first-grade readers. Then I went on to the second and third grade readers. At that point the teacher stopped me, saying I wasn’t supposed to do that.
Wash, rinse, and repeat.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:45 am
My 2nd grade boy read at 7th grade level.
IQ is not dirtectly tied to age.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:45 am
dirtectly – Holy Crap am I dumb.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:52 am
I spent a lot of time yesterday looking into the Khan Academy. One interesting thing that came up, when a local media outlet investigated the local school system that was trying out the Khan Academy in two fifth-grade and two seventh-grade math classes, one reporter noticed a fifth-grade student doing trigonometry problems, with apparent ease. After observing for a few moments, the reporter asked the student, “Are those really fifth-grade math problems?” The student smiled precociously and whispered to the reporter “I think they’re sixth-grade!”
Yes, some really can learn that fast, and we’ve been holding them all back for decades.
Helps you to understand why we’re in the mess that we’re in, doesn’t it?
July 28th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
In a few years, every child with two brain cells to rub together will be sitting in class, raising their fists toward the ceiling, throwing their heads back, and yelling “KHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!” on the birthday of that wonderful man.
I presume the NEA will label this activity a hate crime.
July 28th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
If you look up what “I.Q.” (supposedly) stands for, you’ll see that it is, in fact, directly tied to age.
It’s just funding talk for an eddikater to say “we’ve got nothing for you.” In the one-rooms, you read with the top readers. I once had a kindergartner who spent half his day with the third graders. Somehow or another, this did not lead to peer rejection.
Their next gambit will be to suggest more extracurricular activities. I highly recommend precision shooting. You’ll get a lot of respect in those administrator meetings. It worked for us.
Seriously? Find a hard-up collegiate language major to tutor off-the-books in a foreign language, preferably a classical language. At the preschool to fifth-grade level, there’s a mental window of opportunity open that will never be there again. Regimented schools won’t begin languages until after the prime age is over.
July 28th, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I could read at newspaper level when I was 4. I was so far ahead, I only did “ok” in school because I did the whole thing running on idle. My physics teacher in HS actually told me he would be afraid to see what I’d do if I actually applied myself. They ruined me for ambition, which I guess is the point.
July 28th, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Yes, Mr. Evilwrench, I’m fairly certain that’s precisely the point.
July 28th, 2011 at 4:34 pm
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
July 28th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
My youngest starts college in three weeks. The only time my boys ever saw the inside of a public school was during an away game.
The “I can’t afford it” shibboleth for “private” schools reflects a very real lack of information. Most of them. if you really want your child to go there, will figure a way to make it happen.
July 28th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
Obviously, Pat has too much money and needs to be paying to send my kids to private school. I’m fine with throwing Pat in jail if the payments are late too.
July 28th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/bookstore/dumbdnblum1.htm
July 28th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
When my little girl was a fishun’ buddy, she would listen, not now.
July 28th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
See my comments over there. I first understood that there are dumb grownups when I realized that my second-grade teacher did not know the difference between “contract” and “retract.”
Fortunately, my first grade teacher had been a smart grownup, who taught us to read with phonics and taught us patience and discipline, while understanding that we were still little kids and sometimes some of us pooped our pants.
This was in 1956, and my first grade teacher was an old white-haired lady. She had obviously evaded the Deweyism.
July 29th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
You know, home schoolers don’t generally worry about holding back the smart ones . . . or disciplining the disruptive ones for that matter.