Such shenanigans might make it look like this school is doing wonders, but one wonders what it does psychologically to the child who was given the dishonor of being their "designated dummy" without his knowledge or consent. From my viewpoint it looks more like a bad case "of egg on the face" of all the
adults involved in such decisions. Why? Because studies have been done where teacher's were told that under achieving students were excellent students, earning top grades and having high IQ's and those students lived up to the teacher's expectations. Apparently some studies done where teachers
were told that high achievement students were slow learners, and the results were the same, the student lived up to the teacher's expectation. One wonders if they somehow checked to make sure that the teachers weren't "cooking" grades in both studies.

Happy ending to this classic example is that the this bright fellow thoroughly enjoyed spending a week
of his summer vacation in college with others like him who scored in the top l5% on the ACT.

There's federal funding programs for all sorts of horrible things that people don't necessarily like, it's a dangerous incentive situation.

LOL

Anyways, I think federal education should be the easiest to nullify since it depends on a contractual relationship between the state and the federal government (so does the rest of the constitution but that is another issue for another time). Just stop accepting the money and the states would be free.

Also, why can't education be a completely local thing to begin with. Cities–not states–not the federal government should decide the education standards of their schools. I feel this would make it easier for parents to get involved since they would know they are only dealing with people in their own communities and not the entire population of the nation.