+223 The problem with American schools is that they only go as fast as their slowest student, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is so true. My little brother is in kindergarten, but he's incredibly bright, If you give him a blank map of the world, he can fill in practically every country, and he can read and write and speak two languages, multiply and divide, but they won't let him skip a grade. He's really bored in kindergarten. And they don't hold people back another year.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Let me guess. It's because he's not "emotionally mature", right? Same thing happened to me in Kindergarten.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And the slowest student always really fucking slow.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not my Pre-Cal teacher. I can barely manage a B in that stupid class.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Have you ever thought that the slowest student is you? Not that a B is that bad though...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not as good as an A. Maybe mNm here has high standards?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not the slowest student because there were people with failing grades in that class...and if I was in fact the slowest student then my teacher most DEFINITELY was not going at my pace. @mchalla3 exactly. thanks for understanding that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My school must be special, then..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

To a point, I kind of like that. When I was having trouble with long division in fourth grade my teacher made sure I understood.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is why we should have tracking in schools.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is why I ditched high school so much. I was bored sitting there for 10 minutes waiting for the teacher to finish explaining to one student something ridiculously simple. I don't understand why the slow kids can't just go in outside of class for extra tutoring like the teachers told them to instead of wasting class time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago