If you teach kids in such a way that all of them achieve the same standard, some of those kids are going to be achieving below their ability level, and that's not fair to those kids
Let me get this straight, and see if you're saying what I think you're saying.
I'm saying we need to up our expectations and our support so that every student can meet a higher standard than most of them do now - let's say we'll expect every kid to meet the standards in academic-level grade nine and ten courses, just as an example.
You're saying that that means some of them will be achieving below their ability level, and that's not fair.
But my premise begins with the idea that the achievement of the academic stream would be the new minimum standard. So what you're saying is that expecting the same standard of everyone that we now expect of the highest stream is unfair because it doesn't sufficiently challenge the highest stream. So this improvement, that would see the kids currently lost in the middle cease to be lost in the middle and given the same opportunity as the kids getting the best we can offer, is still not good enough because the kids currently getting our best still deserve more. Do you not see how classist that is? In effect, you're completely denying the possibility that educational equality is something we can or should strive for.
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Let me get this straight, and see if you're saying what I think you're saying.
I'm saying we need to up our expectations and our support so that every student can meet a higher standard than most of them do now - let's say we'll expect every kid to meet the standards in academic-level grade nine and ten courses, just as an example.
You're saying that that means some of them will be achieving below their ability level, and that's not fair.
But my premise begins with the idea that the achievement of the academic stream would be the new minimum standard. So what you're saying is that expecting the same standard of everyone that we now expect of the highest stream is unfair because it doesn't sufficiently challenge the highest stream. So this improvement, that would see the kids currently lost in the middle cease to be lost in the middle and given the same opportunity as the kids getting the best we can offer, is still not good enough because the kids currently getting our best still deserve more. Do you not see how classist that is? In effect, you're completely denying the possibility that educational equality is something we can or should strive for.