jack'smom - They put the high achievers in with the low achievers because studies have shown it really helps the low achievers. The fact that it's probably damaging the high achievers is apparently
...I'm sure CA has the same situation as TX where improving failing scores to passing ones = $$ for the school.
Then I'd tell my kid to pick the wrong answer on every question on the the test. The closer to zero they got, the better.
As for the "studies show" that high performers boost the other kids scores - maybe if the poor performers are copying their answers.
The best solution for the lower performers is to put them in classes with a low student-teacher ratio so they can move at their pace. Teaching to the low middle does a disservice to everyone but the low middle.
