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thingsithink
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Date: October 29, 2017 06:51AM
All kids aren’t at the same level. But some of the kids that appear to be slow learners or dummies might be children of alcoholics, victims of abuse, depressed, extremely uninterested in School, fascinated by what they are learning elsewhere - racehorses.
I’m not the first person to point out that sometimes struggling students are the truly brilliant kids. I spent most of my education daydreaming and flunked out of a few universities. Some people have enough going on in their mind that they aren’t paying attention the first time let alone the second third or fourth time.
So I’m not going to dismiss the kids who didn’t get A’s in Mrs. Jones’ fourth grade class. Or the security guard at the bank, or the country guitar player from Modesto who didn’t finish high school but who is brilliant.
We don’t all learn the same but I’d suggest it’s a mistake to dismiss kids as dummies or slow learners because they can’t parrot back what the teacher said. Really, if somebody thinks that their superior performance in public school means they’re smart and the poor performers are dummies, well, I have to wonder who the dummy is.
By the way, I have no doubt that the public school system was holding Catnip back. But I don’t think the problem with the public school system is dumb students.
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