A third of high school pupils want their lessons to be harder

The Daily Mail (14th February 2007) writes that up to a third of comprehensive pupils say their lessons are too easy.

They have told researchers they want to be moved into higher-ability classes because they are worried that their work is not challenging enough.

As if this is something we didn't know already... How many of us have had pupils come back in to visit us and be told that high school is easy! I particularly find this so in Maths. You have to ask yourself why this is allowed to happen in high schools. So many strategies have been put into place in primary schools so that this won't happen. But my experiences of some high schools is that the children are sometimes allowed to drift in their first year or so.