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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If all schools maintained rigor and let underperforming kids fail, this would be a self correcting problem.  Some schools take this approach.  Others pause the rest of the kids to remediate to the ones who are struggling, or they do tons of group work, pairing the struggling kids up with high achievers to mask how much the kid is struggling.  [/quote]

The last thing a failing kid needs is a being paired with the advanced kid. Way to make them feel more stupid. And is the advanced kid supposed to teach the failing kid math? OMG.

Signed mom of a failing kid. [/quote]
This is all within AAP.  Sometimes, the failing kid in AAP isn't trying very hard, and the teacher is hoping that one of the high achievers will be a good peer model.  Sometimes, the teacher has a classroom of 28 kids and is hoping that the very advanced kid will somewhat help teach the failing kid.  Generally, though, I think the teacher is trying to mask the deficiencies of the failing kid because it's less headache for the teacher.  If Billy rightfully deserves a 1 or 2 grade, it's much easier for the teacher to inflate his grade by putting him in a group with a kid who is going to do all of the work and earn a 4, and then use that to justify giving Billy a 3 and passing him along to another teacher.

My kid had to deal with this in language arts.  He was always paired with a kid who could barely write coherent sentences.  Both kids got 4s for their project, where my kid did all of the research and writing, while the other kid found pictures on the internet for the slide show.  [/quote]

I was always the kid that was in the group who was in there to pull up everyone else's grades. The teachers all knew that I wasn't going to risk getting less than an A, even if that meant I had to do all the group's work myself because the others in the group couldn't (or wouldn't) do the work at that level. The teacher could give everyone As to pad their GPA, but they knew these kids didn't suddenly get 2 letter grades smarter just by sitting next to a high achiever. [/quote]

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