School admin & teachers have their careers advanced partially based on students grades. That means, it's better to have a bored advanced kid get easy A's in basic classes, vs hard B's in classes that actually challenge them.
The whole system is orientated towards raising the bad and less intelligent kids to passing level, vs helping every child meet their potential (even if that potential is lower than average). Devoting resources to High kids takes resources away from getting Low kids to a passing level. This attitude is both systemic AND held by the majority of educators and admin, so virtually impossible to end.
Clown world. Teachers are generally not very smart, deticated to unions, urban and suburban mom's: The trifecta of breeding dumb, priveleged, useful idiots. Admin are proto-Dem politicians, so they exploit the dumb teachers to, yes, bring everyone down to the same level.
Alot of what happens in school makes alot more sense when you realize that school Admin are almost always using their position to springboard into local politics as a Democrat, and that Admin and the Unions work hand in hand with the same goals.
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School admin & teachers have their careers advanced partially based on students grades. That means, it's better to have a bored advanced kid get easy A's in basic classes, vs hard B's in classes that actually challenge them.
The whole system is orientated towards raising the bad and less intelligent kids to passing level, vs helping every child meet their potential (even if that potential is lower than average). Devoting resources to High kids takes resources away from getting Low kids to a passing level. This attitude is both systemic AND held by the majority of educators and admin, so virtually impossible to end.
Clown world. Teachers are generally not very smart, deticated to unions, urban and suburban mom's: The trifecta of breeding dumb, priveleged, useful idiots. Admin are proto-Dem politicians, so they exploit the dumb teachers to, yes, bring everyone down to the same level.
Alot of what happens in school makes alot more sense when you realize that school Admin are almost always using their position to springboard into local politics as a Democrat, and that Admin and the Unions work hand in hand with the same goals.