{"channel":"education","content":"I find myself considering discussions of a new charter school in Texas, which claims to advance students at 2.5x the grade level progress, in 2 hours per day.\r\n\r\nThis raises a question: << what should a second grader who can advance through the academic material at 2.5x do? >>\r\n\r\nAnd an answer (<xantham> of course, \"it depends\".  more specifically, it depends on how much material they are expected to learn) is that they should learn enough math and physics to reach General Relativity at 17. (<red> one cannot teach more than there is to teach.  and not all students can-or-should master General Relativity.  but if they have a technology capable of accelerating the curriculum, and students capable of receiving it ... why not?)\r\n\r\n<red> <<< I recently found a \"real-life\" tech tree (<green> https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/announcing-the-historical-tech-tree ).  What I want is an \"academic tech tree\". >>>","created_at":"2025-07-23T02:11:13.790190","id":632,"llm_annotations":{},"parent_id":null,"processed_content":"<p>I find myself considering discussions of a new charter school in Texas, which claims to advance students at 2.5x the grade level progress, in 2 hours per day.\r</p>\n<p>This raises a question: <span class=\"literal-text\">what should a second grader who can advance through the academic material at 2.5x do?</span>\r</p>\n<p>And an answer <span class=\"colorblock color-xantham\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udd25</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> of course, \"it depends\".  more specifically, it depends on how much material they are expected to learn</span></span> is that they should learn enough math and physics to reach General Relativity at 17. <span class=\"colorblock color-red\"><span class=\"sigil\">\ud83d\udca1</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> one cannot teach more than there is to teach.  and not all students can-or-should master General Relativity.  but if they have a technology capable of accelerating the curriculum, and students capable of receiving it ... why not?</span></span>\r</p>\n<div class=\"mlq color-red\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mlq-collapse\" aria-label=\"Toggle visibility\"><span class=\"mlq-collapse-icon\">\ud83d\udca1</span></button><div class=\"mlq-content\"><p> I recently found a \"real-life\" tech tree <span class=\"colorblock color-green\"><span class=\"sigil\">\u2699\ufe0f</span><span class=\"colortext-content\"> <a href=\"https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/announcing-the-historical-tech-tree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://www.hopefulmons.com/p/announcing-the-historical-tech-tree</a> </span></span>.  What I want is an \"academic tech tree\". </p></div></div>","quotes":[],"subject":"How much should a student learn?"}