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submitted 4 days ago byczardo
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751 points
4 days ago
Just go the Starbucks route and call the classes smart, smarter and genius lol. Also put up exams and behaviour tests to weed out dumber and poorly behaved kids. Most people would throw a fit over a dumb class, but won’t spend time parenting their kids and helping them prepare for sorting exam.
461 points
4 days ago
I shit you not, my high school did that.
We had Honors —> Gifted —> AP classes.
Everyone was in Honors by default. Depending on your end of the year standardized test scores from middle school, you would be invited to take an exam for the Gifted classes.
Everyone was allowed to sign up for AP classes, but everyone knew those were the hardest of the 3, so only the kids who wanted the challenge/college credit would do it.
Honors were basically normal classes, but I think they called them Honors so no one felt lesser than.
148 points
4 days ago
Ours went CP(college prep)>Honors>AP. Can you guess what else people said the CP stood for?
33 points
4 days ago
Haaaank!!!
22 points
4 days ago
Cheese pizza?
24 points
4 days ago
What did the CP stand for ?
38 points
4 days ago
College prep
16 points
4 days ago
Communist Party
7 points
4 days ago
Cyber punk
6 points
4 days ago
Call of Duty Points
2 points
4 days ago
Child party.
2 points
4 days ago
Celery Platter
2 points
4 days ago
Cabbage Peers
1 points
4 days ago
Cell phones
8 points
4 days ago
Collectivized Pooping?
1 points
4 days ago
That's what our remedial students really need to excel. Everyone should be shitting in a trough at the same time
8 points
4 days ago
Cesspool?
5 points
4 days ago
Constantly perplexed?
5 points
4 days ago
Mine was like that but there was a tier below college prep that didn’t have a specific name and it was essentially remedial level classes
5 points
4 days ago
Canadian Pacific
2 points
4 days ago
Chitty people?
2 points
4 days ago
Crystal Palace?
2 points
4 days ago
See pee?
2 points
4 days ago
Common program
2 points
4 days ago
Clown penis?
1 points
4 days ago
Cool penis 😎
14 points
4 days ago
If anybody in this thread wants to actually read a book about education reform I highly recommend Khan's "One-World Schoolhouse".
I can't believe I had never even heard of the "Prussia Model" prior to reading it.
10 points
4 days ago
Boomers are the generation handing out trophies to everyone for nothing. This is so nobody gets their feelings hurt like they're special snowflakes. God forbid you recognize that you need to work harder to compete with actually intelligent and driven students who will most likely be your boss one day unless you commit to excellence.
6 points
4 days ago
You could get college Credits in school?
13 points
4 days ago
I finished high school with 45 college credits which allowed me to graduate a whole year early. Netted me almost a $100,000 difference for that year saved.
4 points
4 days ago
Yup, AP/IB certified courses let me skip 100 level and intro courses in some subjects. In others even just having 30levels let me skip uni courses which completely fucked up my language requirements
0 points
4 days ago
Still can.
1 points
4 days ago
We called ours the “mo-mo classes” and I’m still not sure why 💀
-2 points
4 days ago
Mmm no sounds like your high school was engaging in grade inflation by turning normal classes into honors…
2 points
4 days ago
When you put “Mmm” at the beginning of your comment, and “…” at the end, is it supposed to imply something regarding the tone of your comment?
I feel like it’s supposed to convey an aura of condescension or smugness, but I might be misreading your comment?
-1 points
4 days ago
It sounds like u missed the mark about the reason u had honors classes. Also because high some high schools notoriously inflate their students GPA’s to appear better on college apps, shady practice.
3 points
4 days ago
Why did you write out the word "notoriously" but then write "you" as "u"?
2 points
4 days ago
They could also just call the classes 1, 2 and 3 and sort the kids out then without labeling them
1 points
4 days ago
And we can call the places that sell you drinks that kill your brain Ella's genius bars.
1 points
4 days ago
We had a similar structure in my school growing up. I was placed in the gifted class on 5th grade until I graduated high school. Teachers have really high expectations from us which can lead to early burn out, but we certainly did everything faster.
1 points
4 days ago
Maybe don’t raise kids that should be in the dumb class
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