In article >, ZombyWoof wrote:
> It is called the Lowest Common Denominator Theory.

Yep.

> A school system in Florida where my daughter first started school
> tried grouping children of like abilities together in classes as part
> of a controlled study. After the First Grade, all the A students in
> one Second Grade class, all the B's in another and so forth. The idea
> was to give the Teacher and even playing field to teach to. The
> Teachers were never told what the overall makeup of their class was,
> nor were the children. Wanna take a wild guess what happened?

Not sure what you are getting at, but I don't see anything wrong with
tracking. School became considerably more bareable for me the more
separated my classes were from those of lesser desire to learn.