On 16/01/2014 10:00 AM, scott wrote:
>>> I don't know how you would go about
>>> changing it, perhaps separate out by ability at a much earlier age?
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is that if somebody does well at school,
>> people hate them out of jealousy - and there's where this "cool to be
>> dumb" crap comes from. If that's the psychology behind this, then more
>> separation would just make the problem worse...
>
> Not if the separation was a totally different school rather than just
> different classes.

Didn't the UK try that already? Didn't that lead to a generation of 
people being labelled according to which type of school they got sent 
to, rather than anything they actually achieved while there?

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