UK: One-fifth of primary schools ‘refusing to lay on help for brightest children’
23rd October 2009
One in five primary schools are rejecting Government demands to identify their brightest pupils because teachers have “philosophical issues” with giving extra support to the most able children, a senior civil servant said.
Of course — that would undercut the myth that Everybody Is Special In Their Own Way, and that there’s no such thing as one kid being smarter than another.
‘No Child Left Behind’ works on the same premise; no child left behind means, in effect, bright kids being held back to match dumb kids, with the result that they get bored and cause trouble and the school environment gets worse and worse and worse … not to mention general educational attainment levels.