School, Why do we go to school?

[Kaz]

Originally posted by Sir Michael: In our teacher ed classes we are taught to teach to the highest level in the class. Sure, some kids may fall behind, but they can be helped by the faster students, and anyways, the lower kids will end up achieving more than if you lowered your expectations anyway.

Hear hear! [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm not that sure about the faster students helping the slower ones though (at the age you're teaching at it probably works, of course), and the thing about lowering your expectations I can imagine to be very true, although I haven't had experience with it myself.