My DD is in year 8 and is at an outstanding over subscribed secondary school. In the latest league tables it was "well above average". Unfortunately though my DD isn't particularly high achieving so she is in the second to bottom set. She works so hard though and finds being in a low set distracting and she says she doesn't learn anything. She is naturally much better at english and history and excels in French and Spanish. But the setting is done on averages of english, science, and maths and because her maths and science are so low under 20% it pushes her other averages down. In the December exams she has done really badly in both science and maths despite spending hours revising. I wish her school did a seperate set for maths and english. She works so hard but just doesn't get the results. The teachers say she is so hard working and a credit to them but my worry is in the lower sets they don't care as these kids are never going to get them the results. If she moves down to bottom set her confidence will hit rock bottom and along with being in a class with kids that don't actually want to learn I feel she will just give up and I wouldn't blame her as she tries but doesn't get anywhere. How do other parents deal with this?? Everything is always done on results and working hard but what if your child just isn't academic.
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