re: Sixth grade curriculum in a German public school

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I wish our youth focused more on this rather than history. It seems now all history does for youth is give them a reason to be lazy or pass blame.

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In America, if you ask a 7th grader to read two novels per 9 weeks, parents want to hold conferences about how their child's ADHD prevents them from accomplishing this.

In America, if you raise standards or have high expectations people freak out. "That's not the way I learned it!" No shite, you're borderline illiterate, you frick.

Elected officials don't partake in educational research and have no idea what best practice is.

Specifically in Louisiana, schools that outperform other schools are stripped of personnel and resources until they eventually regress to the mean. Elected officials would rather every school be a C- school than have any positive outliers.

Also, yes a racially diverse school can be successful.

Kids have proven time and again that if they are held to higher standards from a young age, they will reach or exceed these standards. If standards are low, work ethic is never developed and when instruction difficulty increases, they fall behind rather than magically figuring it out.

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held to higher standards from a young age

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ding ding ding ding ding

From 3-9 kids make the largest intellectual jumps year over year. Many years for many children are squandered during this time.

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If ever there was a field that is subject to change and updates, it's certainly education.

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FIFY

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Kids have proven time and again that if they are held to higher standards from a young age, they will reach or exceed these standards. If standards are low, work ethic is never developed and when instruction difficulty increases, they fall behind rather than magically figuring it out.

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When we had our first kid my ex-wife and I went to a parenting class, one of the people speaking summed up what you have said in just a few words, "children will do what you expect.", he was right.

German education also differs form the American system in many ways

There are very, very few school sponsored sports.

School starts at 7:30-8:00 and is finished by 1:30, there are no lunch break.

Those on the university track complete 13 years of school, those on the vocational track only 9 or 10 years.