Cybargs wrote:
Dilbert_X wrote:
Its in the article.
The Finnish philosophy with education is that everyone has something to contribute and those who struggle in certain subjects should not be left behind.
Bringing up the bottom half raises the average.
Makes the kids who are smart bored as shit. Unless they have something like an advanced class.
Scandinavia have pretty much the same educational system and below average, average and above average is taken into consideration ... the snag in this system is the quality of the teachers and that the parents follow up on their kids ...
I have/had kids in all categories ...
*One of the twins (age 12) needs no special attention and follows the class
*The other twin has ADD and was in the bottom of his class alongside a few others ... with extra attention, special classes he is now above average ... that also took some xtra effort from us parents to achieve ...
*The oldest (age 16) is in the top of his class and learns mostly everything pretty fast, he gets to work on special projects and have also attended classes on a higher level ... he has also acted as co-teacher in a few cases with younger classes ...
The philosophy behind this is that we all should get results that matches our capabilities, be the best that we can ...
Those that struggle takes the most resources naturally, but with some planning from the school you can combine classes over several age groups like an example ...
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