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Raquel: They're hopeless. I'm going to fail half of them.
Jaime: Half?
Raquel: They just don't get it. They don't participate. How many of your seniors are you going to pass?
Jaime: All of them.
Raquel: All? That's impossible. You can't do that.
Jaime: They all passed the SAT. Can't fail them if they pass that.
Raquel: You leaked the questions, surely?
Jaime: How would I know what the SAT questions are going to be?
Raquel: Then how...?
Jaime: I put in the time, act up a bit, get them to repeat, "Yes we can."
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Voice-over
Emphasizing a syllabus and applying educational statistics to class performance has its place when viewing an educational system as a whole.
But hire an inspired teacher who has vision, charisma, ideas, and leadership and distortions can pop up. It's like running against someone who trained for the Olympics. A normal lockstep syllabus is irrelevant. And fitting class performance into a normal curve distracts from what is really being accomplished.
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