Great post
My dad is a headteacher at a rough primary school in Walsall so I can sympathise and relate to all of this.

It really is a symptom of a one size fits all education system which lets down children on both ends of the scale - the brightest ones and the ones with learning of behaviour difficulties (sounds like Adam was a bit of both). This in turn disrupts those in the middle.

I don't have a solution - it's a really difficult problem, particularly at Primary level.

Don't get me started on pushy parents.
(jackhiggs no longer a v!rgin as of..., Mon 18 May 2009, 17:51, 1 reply)

Yep.
And just one of the reasons I no longer teach in schools.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 18 May 2009, 18:07, closed)