I just read an article about how grading in school demotivates less successful students. Sure it does, but they forgot about something. They mentioned something about school stress and self-harm/suicide.
Let me tell you about the best way to demotivate a student with potential. Have them pass through junior school without effort and let them be the best, then switch it up and put them in a school where they are heavily disadvantaged and where the best they can ever do, no matter how hard they try, is average. So basically, they are accomplishing so much more than anyone else - odds considered - but they have nothing to show for it.
I'm not very good at track and field, and when running races I can accept the fact that I won't come in first. But take the start athlete and put a 50 kg backpack on him, and then tell him to run a race, he probably won't be very happy with coming in last, regardless of how amazing it is that he finished the race at all.
You see my point.
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