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Las dicotomías como éxito/fracaso, permanencia/abandono etc. pueden tener la ventaja de simplificar algunos problemas o permitir comparaciones espaciales y temporales, pero tienen el inconveniente de desdeñar todos los matices cuando la gama de desempeños, actitudes y respuestas de los alumnos en la institución escolar es, en realidad, enormemente más rica y diversa. Por un lado, crea artificialmente una divisoria de aguas a partir de grandes pero también de pequeñas diferencias, tal vez ocasionales y posiblemente mal entendidas y mal evaluadas. Por otro, oculta el creciente desapego del alumnado frente a la cultura y las demandas de la institución escolar. En todo caso, pone de manifiesto la tendencia de la institución y la profesión a las simplificaciones y a la categorización, por encima de la retórica en torno a la diversificación de la enseñanza y la personalización del aprendizaje.Dichotomies such us success/failure, retention/dropping out etc. may have the virtue of the simplification of some questions, as well as allow spatial and temporal comparisons, but they also present the shortcoming of disdaining details and nuances, as the spectrum of performances, attitudes and responses of pupils in school is, to be true, immensely more rich and diverse. On the one side, it artificially creates a divide where before there were major but maybe minor differences, perhaps simply occasional and probably misunderstood and misestimated. On the other side, it hides the growing detachment of pupils with respect to school culture and demands. In any case, it makes manifest the institution's drift towards simplifications and categorizations, overcoming the rhetoric around teaching diversification and learning personalization.

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