Comments on: Reducing the dropout rate: the economic argument http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/08/reducing-the-dropout-rate-the-economic-argument/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nextset http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2010/07/08/reducing-the-dropout-rate-the-economic-argument/comment-page-1/#comment-27458 Nextset Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:11:06 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=9803#comment-27458 Another example of silly magical thinking. And always taking for granted that everyone has the same cognitive ability, and want the same things the same way.

Betas like being Betas. When you try to force Alphas and Betas to exchange roles they go nuts. Then they get real angry…

Imagine the real savings if we taught all students to live within their physical, mental and psychological abilities as well as they can? Imagine if we stopped the cruel practice of forcing people with IQs of 85 to try to perform as if they were 115? Imagine if we showed the left side of the Bell Curve how to make it in the USA within their abilities? And trained them to pass into employed adult society? And if we stopped importing foreign workers to take their jobs, their prospective mates, and their places in American society?

How much money we’d all save, how much suffering we’d avoid.

Brave New World.

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