What is so Special About 4.669?

If you carry the number out to 30 decimal places,it is δ = 4.669 201 609 102 990 671 853 203 820 466...

Students never fail...only teachers.

I wouldn't say "Students never fail.", but it is definitely true that teachers also fail. I know I was a good teacher for those students who were technically inclined, but definitely not so good for those who weren't.

I don't believe it's even possible for any one person to be a good teacher for all of his/her students. There are just too many different ways in which different brains process information. Unfortunately, no one taught that (if it was known) when I had my teacher training, ≈60 years ago.

So, with that said, That saying of “Noone left behind is not true.”

Correct, unless a good variety of teachers with different thinking processes of their own are available, and some appropriate method of determining which students should be paired with which teachers, is successfully employed.

I suspect that this could only be feasible in large school districts, if at all.

Then I must add another MAJOR factor: parents/guardians. Virtually all of my best students had parents who were significantly involved in the education of their offspring. If the parents don't motivate them, there is a very low probability of success.

I always felt that one can’t leave it to the teacher,... the student needs to pull its own weight also...

I had good teachers and bad from grade school through college.... I took the position with a poor instructor,... especially in college, that it’s up to you, to do your own research and work to carry it through the class... it taught me well. A lesson that when your in the work force... it’s up to you.

You can't raise every student to the same level of education, you can perhaps raise each student eventually to a similar level of expertise is their chosen field though...We should start training students to work in a particular field as soon as they learn the basics of reading, math and communication....as an option, of course, and in close association with a guidance counselor...but it would lower the classroom count and give relief to a lot of students who are bored out of their minds....There should be three levels, (basic, intermediate and advanced) of all classroom and shop instruction...and students should be allowed to be moved up or down in level as performance dictates....

"We should start training students to work in a particular field as soon as they learn the basics of reading, math and communication....as an option, of course, and in close association with a guidance counselor...but it would lower the classroom count and give relief to a lot of students who are bored out of their minds...."

How does one (the student, his/her counsellor, parents) decide on a field of concentration, when the student has yet to be exposed to a variety of fields?

Perhaps some day it will be possible to scan a child's brain and discover some aptitudes and/or strengths and weaknesses to guide such a choice, but that day isn't here yet, to my knowledge.

Lowering the classroom count is definitely desirable, but expensive. And of course teacher's pay is generally too low to attract the very best people to become teachers. I've been out of the classroom for a quarter of a century now, so I have very little idea of what is occurring now, but my take at the time I left was that too much of the district's budget was being spent on administrators, and too little on teachers and infrastructure.

You give the child a choice, would you rather do this or that? You're not doing well currently, would you like to try this? There is not likely to be more than a dozen choices, so by process of elimination you find the environment the child is comfortable in and does well...The teacher only needs to guide and supply the means of accomplishing the goal of successful learning and proficiency....at least the child would have some learned skill with which to deploy in the real world or to continue to pursue in further training and education...

that’s not the true answer, but That’s a start...

On a similar note, what I experienced when I went to college, a lot of the freshmen changed majors by their sophomore/junior year,... the later They changed, more expensive their education was. Because they could not apply the credits already earned in their new field.

no one left behind means that everyone else needs to wait for them.

it is a failed concept and is not fair for those who excel.