[TXBSAFH]

Yes.

My wife teaches high school for problem children and I was at a little get together between some from her school and some from the regular high school. Both her and the teachers of the GT kids (gifted, talented) complained about the way they had to teach under "Every child takes it in the behind".

[USNBandit]

I think the biggest problem are the standards of learning tests. The schools are teaching to the test to get that lowest common denominator student to pass. School has become a 9 month cram session for a two day battery of tests. The tests, especially in elementary grades, test too wide a variety of subjects.

For example on the Virginia SOL test elementary students have a section on computer science, like what is a bit, a byte, etc. Time spent teaching that should be spent teaching kids parts of speech, writing a complete sentence, and mathematics. There is a reason they call it elementary or primary school, and the reason our kids do so poorly is that we forgot that reason.

[hoppity]

My wife teaches high school for problem children and I was at a little get together between some from her school and some from the regular high school. Both her and the teachers of the GT kids (gifted, talented) complained about the way they had to teach under "Every child takes it in the behind".

My wife teaches 5th grade. Her principal won't let the brighter kids be in a class together because the brighter ones "need to be role models for the the other students".