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the key word here is
"bright". What group are we talking about here? Those who are bright
enough to make the kinds of distinctions John is talking about? Are the
students John describes here typical of those with whom he interacts? The
young people John describes make up the top 5% or so of MY HS. Are those
the students who have difficulty abstracting? My goodness!
With all due respect, how often do those of you on this list interact
with *average* HS students? I know John to be an exceedingly bright man. I
would argue that this makes it even more difficult for him to imagine what
it's like NOT to be able to abstract.
While everyone wants to bitch about NCLB, the number one fault I would
place on the whole enterprise is that it places almost zero responsibility
on the students and consequently almost zero consequences upon them for
what must be accepted as a personal responsibility--to become educated
citizens of the country/world.