Originally Posted by Thomas Percy
Originally Posted by Old Dad
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
It's not that there's anything wrong with those kids with IQ down in the 110-120 range. But they cannot keep up with kids like my DD, and placing them in the same class with her forces the teacher to hold my DD back so that the rest of them can manage to keep up.

whistle

I'd only agree to the statement above if it read, "....and placing them in the same class with her forces an inexperienced and untrained teacher to hold my DD back so that the rest of them can manage to keep up."

The ceiling issues is prevalent in the k12 world. Much less so in good colleges. Even less so in a hard major.



Yes.

Unfortunately, that means that k-12 isn't very good preparation for kids who should be working beyond that ceiling, however.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.