I'm old enough to remember when high school in Ontario had THREE streams: Advanced, General, and Basic. Advanced was considered the default stream. Then in the 90s they decided to do destreaming for grade 9. It must have been around 93-94. You might as well have called the classes "Oops! All Basic." They decided to move to two streams in 99 after, guess what, it was not preparing kids of average or higher intelligence.
So why go back now? Three possible reasons:
One, there are enough people in administration now who forgot what it was like in the early to mid 90s and decide they need to try it again;
Two, just like government and businesses, they love to centralize, decentralize, then centralize again because it looks like you're doing SOMETHING;
Three, they know it's going to hurt education and they just don't care, or possibly making dumber, more unprepared kids is the goal.
I'm old enough to remember when high school in Ontario had THREE streams: Advanced, General, and Basic. Advanced was considered the default stream. Then in the 90s they decided to do destreaming for grade 9. It must have been around 93-94. You might as well have called the classes "Oops! All Basic." They decided to move to two streams in 99 after, guess what, it was not preparing kids of average or higher intelligence.
So why go back now? Three possible reasons:
One, there are enough people in administration now who forgot what it was like in the early to mid 90s and decide they need to try it again;
Two, just like government and businesses, they love to centralize, decentralize, then centralize again because it looks like you're doing SOMETHING;
Three, they know it's going to hurt education and they just don't care, or possibly making dumber, more unprepared kids is the goal.