Jag läser i The Guardian:

“Students with purple ties are gifted and talented. All the children at Crown Woods college in Greenwich, south London, know that. They are taught in separate colour-coordinated buildings, play in fenced-off areas and eat lunch at separate times. At 11 years old, all pupils at the college are streamed according to ability in what the headteacher argues is the only way to survive in the brave new world of market-driven education.”

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“Courtney cites famous research conducted by American teacher Jane Elliott in the 60s, in which blue-eyed children did better and began bullying brown-eyed children after being told that they were superior. “There are very established studies showing that kids take the message that they are given from schools and teachers and internalise them,” he says. “We moved away from secondary modern partly for that reason and it is depressing to see the system return.”

Bild: The Guardian