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Originally Posted by BWinmill
The vast majority of high schools do not prepare students for university. The best high schools will give students more advanced work and will force students to take more responsibility for completing that work, but I have yet to see a high school that will force students to take responsibility for their own studies (e.g. going outside of the textbook and class handouts for anything more than a research project).
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Originally Posted by teh603
The high schools can only do so much with the kids that come out of the elementary and middle schools. That's where you need to raise standards. By the time they reach high school, it's already too late.
Trouble is, if you actually push elementary school kids to doing more challenging work, their parents will get all up in your face and threaten to sue.
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isn't this so very terribly sad?!