Ehh... I didn't read the article so I'm not sure what stance they're arguing from, but tracking can lead to some real discrimination problems as grades aren't always an indicator of intelligence and you have many instances where a student may have the intelligence yet lack the resources and proper environment to cultivate it.

A woman I work with was born and raised in the Philippines where tracking in education is a thing. While she was in the top tier for her schooling system she saw how awful people in the lower tiers were treated by both her peers and staff even though in many cases it wasn't that these kids were stupid it's just that they didn't grow up in an environment conducive to learning.

Yeah, I do see that sort of problem <.<

It was a bit less discriminatory than that though, people could move up and down based on their general ability rather than a single test deciding their fate >.> Set 1 for maths at least (In my old school) was based on your attitude and work ethic, as well as ability. If you worked hard and didn't feck around then you got bumped up to the more advanced work but if you acted like a typical mouthbreather then you'd be given average or mouthbreather work >.>

In general, those born with more wealth usually get better grades than those with less wealth according to years of research, so it's really not true that there isn't a correlation between wealth and success. I'm going to guess that NUT's reasoning in eliminating skill level separation is so that it forces the lowest/easiest curriculum to be taught meaning that least intelligent students benefit the most and the most intelligent students to benefit the least, thus closing the 'knowledge gap.' Or maybe they're just looking out for themselves and they don't want to be bothered with higher curriculum and having to teach multiple different skill levels.

That's what I didn't like <.<

Closing the gap simply ends up with dragging the highest down to the lower levels, they aren't able to do as well because the class is constantly being slowed down by kids who don't understand, won't behave or never do their damn homework. Not understanding isn't a problem if you ask for help and then that's that, but when you decide to fuck around all day instead of trying to solve the problem... My sympathy level drops to rock bottom >.>

Be warned this is going to be Britbongistan central, but there will be bits for you yanks and commonwealthers <.<

NUT= National Union of Teachers, the idiots who strike 24/7 and bitch about their oh so hard jobs.

Anyway, here's something amusing.

They claim that seperating the idiots from the smart kids is a bad thing because it 'holds back the poor'. Well excuse me missy, but I'm going to call bullshit on that one, I went to an ordinary high school from a predominantly middle/lower class area. We were divided up into Sets based on ability, Set 1 through to 4.

The only correlation was intelligence/ability/applying yourself to the work, with jack shit to do with wealth.

The best and brightest in the school were from poor/shitty backgrounds with one or two coming from middle-uppers. The pondscum in set 4 were equally rich idiots and filthy peasants.

What it meant was, that sets 1 and 2 would have the cream of the crop and we'd all end up with good grades whilst three and four were aiming for a C/not a fail grade. So imagine the shock horror when some of the brighter kids (Myself and my friend among them, both from poor households) come out with a metric fuck tonne of GCSEs and some of the rich wastrels and dregs come out with a diploma in fucking around.

/Rant

[Article for those who want to read it]

Tl;dr
Teacher's Union acting like idiots again, they claim that separating the smart kids from the retards is a bad thing because it holds the poor back. I spam an anecdotal rant and here we are at the tl;dr.

Thoughts on the concept of filtering smart cookies and above average kids from a pack of howling chimpanzees in high school?

I dropped English Language because the teacher was a massive cunt.

Oh yeah, I remember that lol <.<

I don't see why not, you can give it a try and if it goes shitwards then just cut your losses >.>

Did you only take 3 AS levels? Or did you drop one?
>.>

Oh god... : (

I'm sorry to hear that.

That back there is monkey team forums, with a side dish of destiny4lyfe fans

Monkey team would be being generous.

They must have hired flat out retards to do their site for them.

That was the scariest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life. I freaked out.

We docs see eeeeevvveeerrrrything. So play Nice.

Lol the Raiders wish not to be exterminated, as long as no BoS member gets too close to us.

Very good then, this purge is going to put the Ecclessiarchy to shame <.<

Wait, wrong game >.>

You didn't post a picture of Doc Mitchell though.

FTFY

The Florida Raiders do not trust these armored strangers in their homeland.

...
Wait...

I thought they were just NPCs <.<

EDIT:

Well it would appear that I've missed out on some intelligence here...
And I was going to purge the mutants too ;_;

Whereabouts in Florida are your raiders? Because Miami has something I want >.>

The only one that's passably time killing is the stuff like Candy Crush, if you fiddle with the clock settings on your phone you can basically play it as much as you want, which usually means however long the car/train/bus journey is.

Mobile games are so dull ._.

Caesar announces the Legion's new policy of friendship:

Any nation or tribe that agrees to stay out of it's conflict with NCR will be allowed to trade with the Legion as well as it's civilians, who until now only had access to domestic trade.

Now that Caesar has finally appeared <.<

BoS makes an offer to the legion,
As we are about to purge Florida of it's mutant tribal filth, there will be a large surplus of melee and powder related weaponry obtained. We are willing to trade one crate of weapons (Spears, Knives, Shotguns, IEDs) per intact prewar book, partially intact pre-war books (With readable pages not just burned to shit and spammed all over the interior of a building) would also be accepted with a ratio of 10 damaged books per crate.

250,000 suits of winterized power armor? Plus more advanced weapons such as the gauss rifle. The demand of land has been reduced to one sixth. Is that good?

I just wanted to point out that manufacturing a quarter of a million T51bs in a wasteland would be nothing short of miraculous ._.

Perhaps it needs toning down a bit, at least in terms of numbers >.>

+++BoS Update+++

DC
+DC Battlegroup has arrived at northern florida and established a basecamp and comms link to High Command, awaiting the arrival of Talon Company to commence operations.
+Consumption of Tea increases the mental functions of the Elders of this chapter, allowing them to remain at peak efficiency for longer. Archives are searched for details on the origin and cultivation of this crop.
+The Pitt has been contacted and in exchange for radiation treatment materials, large quantities of high quality steel are shipped to the Capital Wasteland. Manufacture of T45-d suits is underway at the newly refurbished and converted Nuka Cola bottling plant. (Requires formal approval of TC leader first though)
+Talk of more radical reforms is mooted among the elders of this chapter, with discreet communiques sent to Texas High Command.

RnD
+With the pre-war and post-war technological treasure trove of the Big Empty aquired, catalogued and crated up, the RnD division begins preparations for departure.
+The envoy sent to entreat with Caesar has returned and reported no signs of the legion anywhere, it is decided to march as quickly to texas as possible.
+A convoy is being assembled from restored prewar trucks, kitted out with saturnite armour plating and dual gatling laser turrets to protect the contents and occupants.
+The convoy sets off and is expected to arrive in Texas by page 19

Texas
+With supreme command now located in the centre of texas rather than in the precariously isolated lost hills, a concerted effort is underway to establish a system of satellite communications, there remain two detected geosynchronous orbit satellites above the USA, one is located above Nevada and appears to be linked to solar power generation and the other is above Houston. It will take a while to restore full communications networks between the DC and Texan divisions of the BoS. Page 20 estimate.
+First and Second battalions are awaiting the go ahead, they receive their new airborne comrades with a warm welcome. Preliminary surveys of the area are conducted by the Lightings (An ironic name for a lump of iron that defies gravity)
+Surveys underway whilst awaiting the signal from Talon Company that the operation can commence, No estimate for their time of arrival yet.
+Wall construction is underway, hampered by roving gangs of ghouls attempting to cross the border frequently. Paladin squads have been deployed to ensure the safety of the now Combat Engineers.

+++Message ends+++