While I agree with the comments with respect to GRRM, I can't let Patrick Rothfuss off the hook.
I started reading the Kingkiller Chronicle with the understanding that he had already finished the books, and would be releasing them each year for three years. Now that he's blown each deadline by a couple years, I'm a lil' salty.
Was I incorrect to infer some light social contract there?
Much in the same way visiting a museum is much more useful for understanding the past than visiting your grandma's attic, I think a curated history is much more useful than an accurate history. When someone says a clean history, I think they're saying a well-curated history.
You don't submit your first draft almost anywhere else, why do you think nailed it the first time writing your commits? Sometimes you don't get things right, and rebasing is one of the tools that helps you make sure that the written record of your work is helpful.
While I'm not against your proposal per se, the way you call the low-achieving kids "dullards who may never catch up" is a red flag that you don't really understand what puts these kids there in the first place.
This grouping may benefit the geniuses, but the system isn't really holding back the geniuses. They succeed despite the system, not because of it, whereas the system is failing those lagging behind. Implementing this plan on an American school system without addressing the laggards would just be shuffling around the furniture.
I started reading the Kingkiller Chronicle with the understanding that he had already finished the books, and would be releasing them each year for three years. Now that he's blown each deadline by a couple years, I'm a lil' salty.
Was I incorrect to infer some light social contract there?