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Hot Take:
every high school should have an entry test >!(idk what it is called in english but it is a test to see how strong is your knowleage)!< because middle school is so unserious and can vary so much depending where you are from.
I was on a lower side of the entry for my high school but am somehow better than people who got almost full points! It is so unfair and doesn't AT ALL take into account actual knowlage and take seats from people who are actually interested AND can keep up with the program.
If most of the class can't keep up you end up with few talented students who are way ahead of the class, but must wait for the others because underpaid teachers can't (or wont) do personilized classes to everyone so they just take the slowest student and set theirs standards to that.
Yes this is more like a rant, SUPER biased and I don't still think the tests are a solution since they just fix the symtoms of the cause, but I stand by that some people should not be able to take schools they are taking no matter how many times they say they got there "fair and square".
I know we're doing hot takes but seriously please no more barriers to education that filter out people who had the misfortune of going to shitty schools. We gotta find some other way to help people where they are without impeding people who are more advanced; just kicking them out is a good way to entrench poverty.
I don't think HS testing is great either but just to note that japan does it and they don't have high poverty rates
In my school, they separated kids into different classes per grade by academic performance. So no honors students having to put up with the muggles. Made for a very peaceful time.