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Before we begin, I have an admission to make: I don’t like the term “less able”.
Less able than what, exactly? Less able than the more able? That’s a pretty banal and facile statement. Less able than they could be?
Than we want them to be? Less able than the average student? If so, what’s “average”?
No-one is “average”; rather, we are all made up of myriad individual characteristics. If you take an average of each of us (height, weight, IQ, shoe size, etc), you won’t find any individual who is average in all respects. This is known as the “jaggedness principle”.
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