This whole concept of measuring SAT/ACT scores or GPAs and using them to "predict" graduation rates is bonkers.
Sounds a lot like the precogs in Philip K. Dick's Minority Report.
Several decades ago, I had a high-school History teacher. We had an elite private high-school in the same city as I lived (India has both private and public schools). They had an extremely rigorous selection process, including infamous interviews with parents for admission to kindergarten. Our history teacher once remarked, "They take horses and send them out as horses. We take horses, asses and everything else and send them out as horses".
The SAT/ACT/GPA filter seems to be focused on selecting horses and proudly declaring all horses graduated.
Correct. Although there are huge benefits of a gate-kept horse-only environment. Competing against each other, the horses become more excellent. This is why the parents are paying the big bucks and putting up with the process. It is about gaining access to a horse-only environment.
> We take horses, asses and everything else and send them out as horses.
This is just envy at the easier job of the private school teachers, not indicative of their actual transformational capabilities of the public school teacher. The best that these teachers can do (which is no small feat) is to manage the classroom such that the donkeys and the horses do not fight and the horses can stay motivated despite having fewer peers.
Sounds a lot like the precogs in Philip K. Dick's Minority Report.
Several decades ago, I had a high-school History teacher. We had an elite private high-school in the same city as I lived (India has both private and public schools). They had an extremely rigorous selection process, including infamous interviews with parents for admission to kindergarten. Our history teacher once remarked, "They take horses and send them out as horses. We take horses, asses and everything else and send them out as horses".
The SAT/ACT/GPA filter seems to be focused on selecting horses and proudly declaring all horses graduated.