[sportutegrl]

If the students were segregated by ability or even willingness to sit down, shut up, and learn, we could have a class size of 30 or 40 willing students, headed by a teacher with a degree in history, math, english or science, instead of education.

Those teachers with 'education' degrees should be reserved for the little darlings who insist on disrupting the class and ruining it for everyone else.

Once parents learn that their children have been kicked out of the good class and can't get back in unless they spend two months with perfect behavior, they might make them behave instead of arguing with the school.

[A_perfect_lady]

Yes. It’s miserable how much damage the little monsters can do, and nothing happens to them. One kid I had, he had stolen another girl’s wallet, was disrespectful and truant all the time, and then got caught red-handed with a big bag of pot. One day suspension and right back in my class. Thank God his father in another city finally had him come to stay, and he transferred. I really disliked that kid.

[Myrddin]

There was an evident exercise is "sorting" the wheat from the chaff at my high school. The "zoo" English class was populated with all the losers. The "honors" English class scooped up all the high performers. Those between the extremes went to fairly "normal" classroom settings. The male PE coaches were inevitably saddled with the "zoo" classes. The principal task was to keep the losers from burning down the school while the rest attempted some level of academic achievement.