I agree. The current system forces the bright students to proceed at a slow pace, while the students that are not getting it are forced to struggle or become socially ostracised by having to repeat a grade. It seems to me that the system needs to be converted into more of a credit based system similar to college. This would allow bright students to test out of certain credits based on a subject by subject basis, and it would allow a student that was not getting it to repeat only the portion that they were struggling with. I think that it would also create a system where the age of the students in the classroom naturally varried, so the bright kids and the dim kids were not instantly identifiable as such. I believe that this would remove a lot of the social presure to be the same as everyone else.
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I agree. The current system forces the bright students to proceed at a slow pace, while the students that are not getting it are forced to struggle or become socially ostracised by having to repeat a grade. It seems to me that the system needs to be converted into more of a credit based system similar to college. This would allow bright students to test out of certain credits based on a subject by subject basis, and it would allow a student that was not getting it to repeat only the portion that they were struggling with. I think that it would also create a system where the age of the students in the classroom naturally varried, so the bright kids and the dim kids were not instantly identifiable as such. I believe that this would remove a lot of the social presure to be the same as everyone else.