ps - the other thing I was wondering about - what is the criteria used to determine if a student has a "love of learning"?
And is it possible that if the school really is able to filter in only students with a true "love of learning", the overall classroom situation might be improved from the current situation? I don't know anything about your ds' classroom, but in our kids' first elementary school the teachers had to spend a lot of time just managing classroom behavior, and there were several kids in class each year who truly didn't care about being there or about staying on track with what they were supposed to be doing. Once we moved our kids to schools where the level of work required was higher, even though it wasn't the highest level work they could have handled, they were so much happier just because they were in a classroom where the other students were paying attention.
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