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the only part i am going to comment on will be the "dumbing down of courses". I am totally against this. This means that at one point you are teaching at a level acceptable to students, but to give the school a better image or for other reasons they dumb the courses down.
I don't know about others, but I saw this myself during my high school years. Several of my friends knew there was a problem, but most of the student body seemed to like it.
they decided to offer higher level honors courses for "advanced" students, but what this actually did was name the currently advanced class something else.. name the regular course the advanced course, and added an even more remedial class.
to make matters worse, since our school did not have a weighted scale we had a total of 16 people with 4.0's graduating. Out of those 16, I think only 3 of them took any advanced AP courses.. Out of those 3, only 2 of them took more than 1 advanced course.
I am really afraid to see how that school is doing now with the way they continously lowered the bar, so they would have a better overall GPA in the classrooms... I guess the whole idea of teaching the material a little bit more, or actually getting the children to wish to learn is out of the question...
*le sigh*
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