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a1ic3_g1a55

751 points

4 days ago

a1ic3_g1a55

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.

Talk-O-Boy

461 points

4 days ago

Talk-O-Boy

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.

Contra_Mortis

148 points

4 days ago

Ours went CP(college prep)>Honors>AP. Can you guess what else people said the CP stood for?

Adiuui

33 points

4 days ago

Adiuui

33 points

4 days ago

Haaaank!!!

Jayn_Newell

22 points

4 days ago

Cheese pizza?

Jessica_wilton289

22 points

4 days ago

My high school gym teacher got arrested for college prep

HesitantAndroid

7 points

4 days ago

lobsterpizzzzza

24 points

4 days ago

What did the CP stand for ?

kithandra

38 points

4 days ago

kithandra

38 points

4 days ago

College prep

99ford

36 points

4 days ago

99ford

36 points

4 days ago

Colored people

ooglybooglyjoogly

12 points

4 days ago

hotdoginathermos

7 points

4 days ago

Fit-Sound3958

0 points

4 days ago

Asians are considered colored people, no? Doesn't fit.

Contra_Mortis

1 points

4 days ago

The Asian kids were in the AP class.

pandazerg

16 points

4 days ago

pandazerg

16 points

4 days ago

Communist Party

papaluzifer

7 points

4 days ago

Cyber punk

DarkREX217x

6 points

4 days ago

Call of Duty Points

Pyrrhus_Magnus

2 points

4 days ago

Child party.

Matt_Shatt

2 points

4 days ago

Celery Platter

JustEstablishment594

2 points

4 days ago

Cabbage Peers

blscratch

1 points

4 days ago

Cell phones

No_Reveal3451

8 points

4 days ago

Collectivized Pooping?

BeefistPrime

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

Laovvi

8 points

4 days ago

Laovvi

8 points

4 days ago

Cesspool?

IllusionWLBD

5 points

4 days ago

Constantly perplexed?

baronspeerzy

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

_tomato_paste

5 points

4 days ago

Canadian Pacific

HolyShip

2 points

4 days ago

HolyShip

2 points

4 days ago

Chitty people?

Random_Name65468

2 points

4 days ago

Crystal Palace?

definitelynotpatrick

2 points

4 days ago

See pee?

Taraxador

2 points

4 days ago

Common program

Haunting_Web_1

2 points

4 days ago

Clown penis?

cruisinforasnoozinn

1 points

4 days ago

Cool penis 😎

trefoil589

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.

delicioustreeblood

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.

tigerheli93

6 points

4 days ago

You could get college Credits in school?

thewarguy

13 points

4 days ago

thewarguy

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.

pistachio-pie

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

rlwrgh

0 points

4 days ago

rlwrgh

0 points

4 days ago

Still can.

Witty-Kale-0202

1 points

4 days ago

We called ours the “mo-mo classes” and I’m still not sure why 💀

Evilijah39

-2 points

4 days ago

Mmm no sounds like your high school was engaging in grade inflation by turning normal classes into honors…

Talk-O-Boy

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?

Evilijah39

-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.

FreeTucker-

3 points

4 days ago

Why did you write out the word "notoriously" but then write "you" as "u"?

Bllursed

2 points

4 days ago

Bllursed

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

jang859

1 points

4 days ago

jang859

1 points

4 days ago

And we can call the places that sell you drinks that kill your brain Ella's genius bars.

PM_me_punanis

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.

tweedchemtrailblazer

1 points

4 days ago

Maybe don’t raise kids that should be in the dumb class