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Originally posted by bilmore
I'm not okay with that, obviously. But, why is this an either/or solution set for you? When I was a kid, we certainly learned all those timelines - it was, like the foundational work - and we also did the research and writing. Have our expectations dropped so low that it's now normal to think that we cannot expect that level of work? This is a primary reason, in my mind, why we're so far below many other countries' ed systems - our lack of expectations.
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Because it is an either/or. The difference between one kid in a class passing can be the difference in thousands of dollars of funding for the school. I have no incentive to maximize the learning of the class as a whole (beyond my own pedagogical ethics); I have every incentive to target all my efforts to making sure that the one or two or three marginal students pass instead of fail (as a consequence, I also have little incentive to educate the ones I've written off completely
at all).
