Student Issues
"If you're a working-class kid in the vocational track, the options you'll have to deal with this will be constrained in certain ways: you're defined by your school as 'slow'; you're placed in a curriculum that isn't designed to liberate you but to occupy you, or, if you're lucky, train you, though the training is for work the society does not esteem; other students are picking up the cues from your school and your curriculum and interacting with you in particular ways."
This is very important, if a student placed based on where they come from or other irrelevant factors, there is a much higher chance that they will be misplaced and will either drown in their work, or be bored because of the lack of challenge. There are lots of discussions happening today about preventing students from being left behind or even unchallenged in school.
Rose, Mike. "'I Just Wanna Be Average.'" 50 Essays A Portable Anthology,
compiled by Samuel Cohen, 4th ed., Bedford St. Martin's, 2014, pp. 345-59.
This is very important, if a student placed based on where they come from or other irrelevant factors, there is a much higher chance that they will be misplaced and will either drown in their work, or be bored because of the lack of challenge. There are lots of discussions happening today about preventing students from being left behind or even unchallenged in school.
Rose, Mike. "'I Just Wanna Be Average.'" 50 Essays A Portable Anthology,
compiled by Samuel Cohen, 4th ed., Bedford St. Martin's, 2014, pp. 345-59.