The problem also needs to be remedied in our thinking. Maybe we have inherited an incorrect definition of success. We expect everyone to go to college and to succeed there. By following this thinking, we may have lowered our standards in the classroom. Students coming to college with a 4.0 are baffled if they receive Cs, which were once considered, and should be considered, an average grade.
Most students expect to do better on average.
But we must provide them without lowering standards. Teachers are doing their charges no favors when they give them grades they don't deserve in high school. I was trying to remember the name of a movie that I saw in the last couple of years, and I thought I would see if any of you might know the title. Somehow, the character stumbles onto information that is absolutely vital to the fiendish plans of some shady organization. It might be the mob, the CIA, the FBI, the KGB, or the LAPD, but we're not really sure until the end.