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mass education is, by its nature, about teaching kids with IQ's of 100. There are many better ways to teach kids with IQ's of 85- and better ways to teach kids with IQ's of 115+. But because we're more concerned with the ideal of equality than concrete results we've made many avenues illegal.

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Do you have examples that follow this model and perform higher? I believe East Asian countries, and Finland at the least in Europe, are very rigid and have success. I'm curious to see the opposite approach too.

it depends on how you define success. you can achieve great results with a strict system if that system is oriented towards selecting the high performing students. This is what the tiered college system in the european socialist countries is according to what I've read.

I think In america we're trying to have our cake and eat it too. We spend our time trying to make every student above average rather than orienting ourselves to the reality of education.

I don't know where your kids are in school, but in my kids' public school this is just not the case. There are special teachers for kids with low IQs (or whatever their performance metric is), and special classes for high achievers.

there are special classes for kids with IQ's of 70 and AP classes for kids that show a bare minimum of ability. not much of a spectrum.

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