I often refer to certain people as sub-epsilon morons. I doubt very many people are aware of the origin, but it seems self explanatory, as I’ve never been asked about it.
Because it is the law! Gifted students must be offered enrichment and if in a regular classroom this means that they will have activities that go above and beyond the regular assignment.
You’re lucky. Many teachers just have the gifted kids act as a peer tutor and call that enrichment.
I recognized the reference, but that was no guarantee it was a personal allusion. Many schools - most, unfortunately - group students according to some perceived ability, and since that is an academic interest of mine, I was curious whether that was an actual term used in a school, and if there were others employed as well.
That’s always an interesting phenomena. They group students by abilities and make up cute names for the cohorts to prevent damaging the self-esteem of the boneheads. It usually takes the bone heads around forty seconds to figure out the Red reading group are the dummies. Smarter than administrators, anyway.
Yes, and just as insidious is the fact that the Bluebirds ALSO know that the Red group are the dummies. Think THAT power dynamic doesn’t continue forever?