Problem is, all by themselves the schools are going to look really bad. Then the question is, What to do about it?
This is an expensive, not altogether useful fix. But the alternative is to do a lot of firing and retraining--which will also be an expensive and not altogether useful fix.
We expect the above average to do above average.
We expect the average to do above average.
We expect the below average to do above average.
I have a kid who lives for his vocational classes. Can rebuilt motors and engines. Can fix almost anything. Enjoys it. Has a gift for it. And I'm trying to get him to solve an equation for force given mass, stopping distance, and initial velocity. He looks at the math and gets every step wrong. He shouldn't be made to take my class. He's a senior, for the second year. He got a mercy pass from algebra I the second time he took it, 10th grade. He still can't tell me that if 10 = 5x then x = 2. "10 - 5?" "5 / 10"? All the same to him. If x = 2 in 10 = 5x, then it has to equal 2 in 18 = 3x.
Foolishness. The college-educated saying that everybody is equal or must be equal and therefore everybody should be like them.
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