Some people think that schools should select students according to their academic abilities, while others believe that it is better to have students with different abilities studying together. Discuss both views and state your own opinion.

Some people think that schools should select students according to their academic abilities, while others believe that it is better to have students with different abilities studying together. Discuss both views and state your own opinion.    

In order to make learning  more meaningful, many educationalists  have started proposing creating a bifurcation among the fast and slow learners in their formative years. This has initiated a  profound debate since many out rightly reject the former view.

Short listing learners as per their abilities to grab things can help save time and efforts of both, teachers and pupils. Tutors can stay focused on uniform strategies  that address the requirements of learners specifically. For instance, a setting that is populated with young learners who excel in academics, would need a method that facilitates rapid learning, while a class that has slow learners needs the sessions to be more explicit and slow to allow slow learners to grasp the content.  

Moreover, tutors will be spared of flak from students with the latter blaming them  for harboring partisan attitude towards bright or dull pupils. Admittedly, in  mixed ability classes, the progress often relies on collective outcomes, quite unwelcoming for those quick at grasping content. They complain of teachers deliberately slowing down the process to aid academically weaker. Same is true of the slow learners who often feel alienated with teachers involving brighter pupils in discussions.

Nevertheless,   critics of such settings assert that adopting this kind of practice will mean defeating the very purpose of education and promoting a permanent wedge between the learners quite early on which may become insurmountable later. The fundamental principle of formal tuition is promoting equality along with instilling wisdom and not training young minds to harbor ill-feelings for each other.

Hence, it can be said that harboring such discriminatory system will do more harm than good. In order to bolster excellence, basic tenets of education should not be abandoned, so I detest the arrangement of segregation and selective enrollment of pupils.