[jwparkerjr]

You must remember that schools, public schools anyway, are run by liberals. The liberal mindset is that one way to reach equality is to bring down the acheivers as much as you bring up the underachievers. In their twisted mind it somehow helps the formerly F student to get up to a D only if the formerly A students can be brought down to C. I know it sounds crazy, and even a bit demented, but if you look at example after example of how liberals approach life’s problems that always a part of their solution. It’s like you have done a good thing if you can punish the A student, even if it does nothing to help the F student.

[Incorrigible]

And that policy was in place long before President Bush implemented Senator Kennedy’s “No Child Left Behind” plan.

[Kitten1]

You both made excellent points. I was a gifted student in grade school (Chicago) and sent from 2nd to 5th grade. A new principal, who I hope is burning in hell, didn’t feel I should be advanced because I was too young. She told my parents that my presence in 5th grade would be disruptive for the other children. Principal Carry’s name is my Niagra Falls (3 Stooges reference).

We had a good school before her arrival - most of the teachers lived in the neighborhood. I was sent back to 2nd grade and so bored that many teachers would tutor me at their homes to keep me inspired. They also gave my parents advice on tutoring me at home. I actually wrote 2 plays that the school put on. I was the casting director. That was a great experience.

My parents (at the suggestion of those teachers) put me in a private school where I thrived.

Side note: One of my grade school teachers told me that the brightest people he knows dropped out in their sophomore year in high school because they weren’t allowed to reach their potential. He didn’t want that to happen to me. And I made sure that it didn’t happen to my daughter.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The left's pretense of wanting equality is just a way to dumb down the entire population.

It is obvious that not all students can achieve the highest levels so, to assure equality, they keep the bright students down. We must not hurt the feelings of the slow ones you know.

It also makes the teachers jobs easier, and that is important, too.