Snuffy, in a comment on this, re something or other said by somebody or other:

Notice how you blame the teacher (when there are in fact 3 teachers involved here) for the disruption and say she should learn to control her classes. It is this type of mentality that is the root cause of the problem in the first place. Change it. Or you will be part of the problem.

Which would be Snuffy’s answer to this guy, I bet you.

Read the posting too.  It’s a classic case, yet again, of perverse incentives, this time in the form of clever but disobedient boys, ruining things for a less clever but more obedient and motivated girl, but the boys are kept in the class instead of slung out because they just might come up with some good exam results.  And make the teacher look better than if she merely got on with teaching something to a less clever kid, who merely wanted to learn something.

Badly behaved white boys, by the way.  I don’t agree with Snuffy about everything, but there is no better teacher blogger out there that I personally know of, if you want to understand what happens in state schools in disadvantageous places, and what it feels like to work in such a place.