Arrgh! What a wretched bunch of kids. I suppose all teachers run into this. Everyone wants to teach the ones who want to learn. No one wants to teach the ones who don't want to be there *and* the ones who don't want to be there are making it challenging for those who *do* want to learn.

I suspect this conundrum is at the heart of the failings of our educational system. If you look at the populations who have high scoring students, I have to wonder what you would see if you looked at their population overall.

And it makes me wonder how and if I fit into this system at all.