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As someone currently in college for a degree in secondary education, yes this is exactly it. Putting the underachieving students in the "dumb class" reinforces low self esteem and crushes motivation, causing them to continue to underperform or even perform worse than before.
Individualizing lessons in the classroom is what helps students. However I have found teachers are typically pretty bad at doing this, and in my opinion, its because they are afraid of giving up control.
In my country (and in many othets I suspect), the number of pupils per teacher keeps increasing. It's really hard to individualize teaching when you have 30 pupils :(
That is fair. I also think it depends on the subject. Math I think would be particularly hard to individualize lessons. However english and social studies I think would be far easier. Thankfully I am studying to be a history teacher. Will update in 2 years how my experimentation with decentralizing the classroom goes lol