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by tracker151 minutes ago |
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upvoteby throwaway2744828 minutes ago|
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I'd be fine with that. It would provide an incentive to care about the bottom 75th percentile along with the spoiled rich kids
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upvoteby ofjcihen4 minutes ago|
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Just FYI I was dirt poor and from a crap neighborhood and qualified for and benefited from these AP classes. Not all kids who succeed only succeed because of their background.
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upvoteby tracker114 minutes ago|
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The bottom 75th percentile don't advance humanity to nearly the same level. Do you think you'd have the internet or iPads if everyone was capped to the 75th percentile? No.

Beyond this, the entire point of higher education is to push those who are able to higher levels, not to drag the 75% along for the ride.

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upvoteby throwaway2744812 minutes ago|
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> The bottom 75th percentile don't advance humanity to nearly the same level.

Who do you think produces all the value in the world? It's not the people organizing the labor, it's the goddamn laborers.

> Do you think you'd have the internet or iPads if everyone was capped to the 75th percentile? No.

What do you think we would be eating if we left the world up to the rich nerds? We would have starved many millennia ago.

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upvoteby ajsnigrutin16 minutes ago|
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That's horrible. Smarter kids could get a better education, but they can't, because the teachers have to deal with illiterate kids that don't want to learn in the first place.
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upvoteby throwaway2744816 minutes ago|
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Maybe if we tried to educate all our kids instead of just the rich ones they wouldn't be illiterate
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upvoteby tracker110 minutes ago|
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We do... The VAST majority of kids go through public education... It's mostly a matter of effort, and that comes down to mostly parent pressure on having their kids do the work.

Maybe if we actually held kids that can't do the work back, they wouldn't be illiterate. Let social pressure do the work it's meant to. For that matter, let parents do the work they're supposed to.

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upvoteby throwaway274488 minutes ago|
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> It's mostly a matter of effort, and that comes down to mostly parent pressure on having their kids do the work.

Oh, so it's about money.

> For that matter, let parents do the work they're supposed to.

So you want it to be about money.

If we left society up to you fucks, this place would look like the antebellum south

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upvoteby ajsnigrutin12 minutes ago|
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Some kids are just stupid, and it doesn't matter if they're rich or poor, there's nothing you can do about it. No need to keep everyone at the stupidest kids level.
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upvoteby throwaway2744811 minutes ago|
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Half of them are in AP classes. let's not pretend our methods of sorting kids into castes makes any sense. Let's be honest: this is about money and attention, and you want to grind the poor kids into dust
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