Finland ranked seventh in the world in OECD's student assessment chart in 2018, well above the UK and the United States, where there is a mix of private and state education

Finland ranked seventh in the world in OECD’s student assessment chart in 2018, well above the UK and the United States, where there is a mix of private and state education

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    You have gifted programs in the public school. Your thinking shows the exact problem, that public schools can only “pull students down”. You can only see public schools as bad instead of, you know, funding them to be good. How about funding them so they pull everyone up, huh?

    Then you go on to conspiratorial thinking to vilify, gasp, public schools.

    • cricket97@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      A genius being around average people will pull them down. It’s a good thing to concentrate our smartest children in an environment that lets them learn with equally intelligent peers. There might not be enough hyper intelligent kids in a geographical region to warrant the resources required to fully support that minority of students. Nothing I said was conspiratorial.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Dude, gifted programs. Advanced classes. They are together. This is really easy. Any reasonably sized school will have enough to fill out an advanced class.

        And this ensures all students can live up to their potential! How about that? Instead of only the ones that can afford stupid high tuition. Who have to pass screening, and wait times, and wait lists, and then long commutes. If you want more advanced people in society, the way you do that is opening the doors to more people, at all points in their life, right where they live.

        And what the other guy said about selective public schools.

        And yes you’re on about government approved education dogwhistle and authoritarianism. Dude, you’re right down conspiratorial thinking.

      • V H@lemmy.stad.socialEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        There are over 160 selective secondary state/public schools in England. Being state run does not prevent the existence of selective schools.