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- From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
- Subject: Re: Dumb school administrators and parents
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.213827.1574@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:38:27 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
- Sender: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin)
- References: <C0pBLz.6M2@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <93Jan11.145434est.47766@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Originator: clin@state.eng.umd.edu
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- In article <93Jan11.145434est.47766@neat.cs.toronto.edu>, tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony Wen Hsun Lai) writes:
- >In article <C0pBLz.6M2@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> lamoran@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (L.A. Moran) writes:
- >>Pete Lancashire gave us an example of a bright student who decided
- >>to play basketball rather than putting all of his effort into
- >>getting good grades. His school and his parents supported this
- >>decision. Pete writes;
- >>
- >> "I was a mentor to this summer, (est IQ over 135) didn't want
- >> to get good grades because he felt that he would not have
- >> any friends, and he did not want to be a 'nurd and geek',
- >> his words. Also he had to make a choice between basketball
- >> EVERY NIGHT of the week or homework, the school (big into
- >> sports) and his parents felt that his basketball was more
- >> important.
- >[stuff deleted]
- >>
- >>I doubt that either the parents or the school said "to hell with
- >>academics". If the student had been doing poorly I'm sure that
- >>basketball would be dropped.
- >
- >Um, I think you missed article <1993Jan9.061912.6608@sequent.com>, where
- >petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire) writes:
- >[lots of stuff deleted]
- >:His academics, he is currently getting D's and F's in math, english, and
- >:history, sorry forgot to say this in the first post.
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- I think the misunderstanding is plausible. Pete said that
- the kid had an IQ over 135, which implied (incorrectly) that the
- kid was getting good grades. In this case, what might have
- happened is that the teachers thought "he's not such a good student
- anyway", and therefore concluded that it wasn't worth it to improve
- the student's grades. Too bad.
-
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- Charles Lin
- clin@eng.umd.edu
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