Feb 27 2013: Cookie-cutter education. We had to move my daughter to a new school this last year because the superintendent of her old school imposed a district-wide policy of no extra help for the slower students, and no extra challenges for the faster students. Consequently, my daughter was bored a year ago, because half-way through the school year, her teacher was still presenting material that she had already learned. In tough economic times, educational programs that target kids whose abilities lie outside of a narrowly defined "average range" are all to easy to cut from the curriculum.
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