When I was in Grade School in the Fifties, our classes were divided into fast learners and slow learners. How un-PC! Nobody complained! The slower learners got a bit more attention. It worked well!
“When I was in Grade School in the Fifties, our classes were divided into fast learners and slow learners. How un-PC! Nobody complained! The slower learners got a bit more attention. It worked well!”
That is still the case. Most schools have regular classes, Pre AP classes and AP classes.
Indeed.
I was placed in an accelerated class for grades 5-6. It prepared me for an exam school which I attended for 7-8th grade.
When I transferred to a regular Junior High for 9th grade, the “slow learners” had their own classroom where they stayed all day getting personalized and intensive attention. Then they graduated with us and were mixed in alphabetically. It was the perfect environment for them, being somewhat “mainstreamed” but not exposed to bullying or being left in the dust by the other students.
This was how the Boston Public Schools operated back in the 1960’s.
Of course, it is NOT like that anymore.