convoy concept

convoy concept
   an educational theory whereby the rate of instruction is lowered to the rate of the most stupid or least able to learn
   A theory once espoused by teacher training institutions and practised by their products, thereby threatening to condemn some able children to a lifetime of menial work or unemployment:
    The 'convoy concept' requiring all to travel at the pace of the slowest, the linguistically handicapped, was damaging. (Deedes, 1997, writing of classes containing immigrant children with a poor command of English)

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