Fed up with our school being preferential to the clever kids!

[minko]

My DD is in Yr 6. She came home last Friday really demoralised by school. She has issues with dyselxia and struggles with school, though she always works hard and does her best. A few of her friends keep being repeatedly selected to go on seminars and other one day/ weekend events that they have been chosen for as they are the 'brainy kids'. It is really starting to get my goat. I complained to the teacher today and she said that the organisers ask for certain 'profiles' of the type of kids they want. Now that's all well and good for the kids chosen but it's not very inclusive! I think if opportunites are going to be offered they should pick the names out a hat and that be that. You wonder sometimes if the kids are benefitting or the profile of the school. Am I wrong to get upset about this??

[PiqueABoo]

spanieleyes, "We have no idea what is on the test, so how can we teach just that!"
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I can't work that out either and don't rate people very highly if they resort to the phrase unless they're describing the overall school experience i.e. SATs subjects displacing non-SATs subjects in timetables etc.

[posheroo]

YES teachers always seem to favour bright kids. They are the teachers successes. I suppose it is capitalistic

[mrz]

Bright pupils are not my successes, the "strugglers" successes are my reward for a job well done