Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
A callous way to put it, but it could also be stated that setting people up for modest success is a much kinder position than setting them up for exceptional failure.
Kids who are disruptive/discipline problems. Teachers should not be removing slow students who do not cause issues in the classroom. Teachers should remove disruptive students. Disruptive students lose their learning pass, and all would benefit from such a situation.
Teachers becoming disciplinarians is where they become authoritarian, exploitive arbiters of ones future earning potential.
I'd encourage you to think critically about the design and implementation of such a system, the incentives it would generate and the moral hazards of enacting it. It's not like labeling kids as "unworthy of learning" could be abused.
You're being intentionally obtuse. If you have the capacity to have an accelerated program for 1,000 students in a district, then you rank by test scores and bring in the top 1,000.
My intentions aren't epistemologically accessible to you.
What parents commenters are doing is laundering agency through a testing regime. It's part of the process of the absolution of responsibility of consequence.
As an aside, it's clear that parent commenters aren't mature enough to be approached socratically. I regret their schools taught them to read and write. They clearly don't want to learn.
You broke the site guidelines badly with this post. We ban accounts that do this. Your account has been doing things like this repeatedly. Can you please stick to the rules from now on?
Since we're clearly able to read each other's intentions, yours are to disrupt the legitimate line of questioning with a temper tantrum. I hope you see where assuming people's intentions ends up. I know you can do better than that.
You broke the site guidelines badly here. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of how provocative other comments were or you feel they were.
Fortunately it doesn't look like you've been making a habit of this (at least not from a quick look at the account's recent posts in other threads), so this should be easy to fix. If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to using HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.
