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by vkjv
3666 days ago
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I am about the age and had a very similar experience, but it went beyond LAN parties. In retrospect, I went to a very quirky school. It was public, but you need to apply to go there--it was no one's default school. Despite that, we had some of the best sports teams in the state, debate teams, and engineering teams. It was a culture of excellence and it was difficult to even classify geeks and jocks because so many individuals fit into both groups. I'm not sure what this school did to get it right, but it's sad to see it not replicated many times over. |
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> but you need to apply to go there
It sounds to me as if the school had a filter function to sort the unmotivated (or disadvantaged) out at the gate. If your strategy is to sift though the general population to find exceptional individuals, pretty much by definition you will not be making all schools in the same manner.
I think that's why successful charter schools are so hard to replicate. For every successful charter school, there are some number N that aren't.