It doesn't even make sense
to focus all your support on dragging up below average children just so they can pass a standardized test and prove to the government your results are going up. It's not fair and it's not right to value any child over another, but that's what happens when you abandon the average and better than average.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 14:58, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I know
even if you spend all the possible time in the world nurturing the below average, the most they're ever likely to be is...average.
Why not spend that time nurturing the above average ones who could be brilliant, instead of abandoning them?
*belms hard*
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:02, Reply)

I suspect a lot of people on here
found this during their school days. The one thing I can tell you is I never won anything during school, because most places had switched to giving prizes for 'effort' rather than achievement, which meant the thickest kids got stuff for scribbling with a crayon.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:08, Reply)

What? What?!
That is utterly STUPID.
(berk, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:11, Reply)

Absolutely
happened all the time.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 23 Nov 2010, 15:16, Reply)