Originally Posted by master of none
They also sit according to ability. The better are in front. The back row is not where you want to be. I think it's tremendously motivating to all levels of players, but I wonder how it has been allowed to persist in this climate of equal opportunity.

Actually my third-grade math class worked this way--but that was over 40 years ago. I did find it motivating and I think other students who were usually in the top ~fourth or third of the class did too, but I do wonder what effect it had on the students near the bottom. It was not a 'tracked' or accelerated class, so students of all abilities were in there together. That was the only class and the only year I ever saw that kind of arrangement.