[Chris Borokowski]

I've never understood this either. Making bright kids
bored is a sure path (for them, and us, because
they're our future generation) to intelligent dropouts
contributing nothing to society. However, we did get
some of our better popular music this way.

--- Sam Beard <sbeard at oico.com> wrote:
>    On a similar note, so many teachers have to teach
> to the lowest
> common denominator, plus a slight level, perhaps,
> because of the wide
> variety of students and their learning styles in the
> teacher's classes.
> Small class sizes, or those that group students on
> abilities, seem to
> make more sense to me. However, now that I think
> about that, I remember
> reading some reports not that long ago that some
> schools were removing
> the listing of the honor roll students and such as
> that from newspapers
> and the like because "not all kids are capable of
> becoming honor roll
> students and we don't want to hurt the feelings of
> those that aren't on
> the list." That doesn't really seem to make much
> sense to me, either,
> but there you go. 


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