[mamonster]

Until public schools get rid of the delusion that putting troublemakers/educationally challenged kids into a class of average to highly capable kids will pull the troublemakers upwards escaping public schools is a worthy goal for most middle income families. Talk to any middle school teacher, in a class of 20 people there are 3-4 people that slow everything down for the other 16 and there is no feasible way of disciplining/getting rid of them.

Not sure how applicable this is to the U.S, this is the case in a lot of Western Europe.

[silisili]

This is the case in the US, too. They do exactly this, and instead of bringing anyone up, it brings everyone down. Most exasperated by the fact that teachers and schools have zero recourse in those situations.

My public school tenure was an absolute nightmare. For my kid's sake, I'll never live in another place that does 'socioeconomic bussing.'

[grammers]

In theory, integration sounds nice. In reality, schools don't get enough funding/resources/teachers to make this work. Integration has failed/is just a money saver for politicians. It's time we said this out loud instead of pretending otherwise.

[hattmall]

This is the case for most everything though. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. It plays out in larger society as well, on both ends. You have a few billionaires doing outsized damage destroying society through marketing / antisocial business practices and on the other end you have the 1000 people that commit 40% of crime in Atlanta. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/1000-crime-atlant...

[landemva]

In some USA school districts there are "gifted and talented" programs to put high performers into their own curriculum tracks with similar peers. More parents would flee public schools without these segregation programs.

[DonnyV]

Question? How many teachers do you have per class?