Cooperative Learning, in which students receive a group grade, is another means of concealing who does the assignment accurately and who goofs off. The brighter students soon learn that their effort is not rewarded, and the slower students learn that there's no reason to try because someone will given them the answers. The testing system has been corrupted. The response to the dramatic decline in SAT scores over the last two decades has resulted, not in toughening the curriculum, but in raising every student's score 100 points, so now students get perfect scores even if they have some wrong answers. This is one more way of concealing the distinction between average and above- average students.
Competition needs to be restored if schools are to prepare students for life.
Children should learn early that life is competition, and the rewards go to those who work hard, persevere and achieve.