My school was the opposite. Underperforming? Student aides basically do your work for you and let you leave the classroom, bring you snacks, hell even buy you lunch most times.
Talented and gifted students? Extra work, almost no benefits. Poorly funded to the point we had to fundraise events we're doing ourselves and then get told once we have supporters that we aren't allowed to do that for some reason.
Absolute shit show. Special ed was encouraging students to never leave it and TAG was discouraging students from being in it.
Yeah same. A teacher casually said my mom she'd always take 2 points from me at every test because I was gifted so this was "too easy" otherwise. It was like pushing on the heads of students who could swim so that everyone would be equal and almost drowning.
This is largely because of the way schools in the United States receive funding. It doesn't really matter what the upper end scores, what effects funding is a. How many kids are above the minimum qualifications for their grade. And b. How far below the others are. It's more important to funding that students pass the tests than that students do well. And keeping kids who are likely to do poorly in special classes where they are allowed additional time and aid on those tests really helps the bottom line.
I don't know the details of why it's like that in other parts of the world. I know it's really prevalent in the United States because if the way funding is determined.
No child left behind did a lot of damage to all students. But children who are advanced and children who struggle were more affected than average students.
Teaching to the test does not make students smarter, happier, improve life skills, improve job skills, or prepare one for college. It makes students better at taking tests. Which means the harder schools push being better suited for tests, the less any of the other areas can be addressed at all. Remedial classes have proven to hold students back from progressing normally, rather than help the student really improve. And when more money goes into programs like special education and remedial classes, less money can go to advanced classes and arts programs and other enrichment programs.
Talented and gifted students? Extra work, almost no benefits. Poorly funded to the point we had to fundraise events we're doing ourselves and then get told once we have supporters that we aren't allowed to do that for some reason.
Absolute shit show. Special ed was encouraging students to never leave it and TAG was discouraging students from being in it.
Teaching to the test does not make students smarter, happier, improve life skills, improve job skills, or prepare one for college. It makes students better at taking tests. Which means the harder schools push being better suited for tests, the less any of the other areas can be addressed at all. Remedial classes have proven to hold students back from progressing normally, rather than help the student really improve. And when more money goes into programs like special education and remedial classes, less money can go to advanced classes and arts programs and other enrichment programs.