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To me, special needs aren’t about being exceptional or not. Read carefully, as I did account for “normal kid behaving mediocre” in my last comment. Think, “It’s a behavior that requires a different strategy from normal.” Hence “special” needs.

Sure, there are tons of unmotivated people. Sure, it’s not everybody you can motivate. But the responsibility lies with the teacher first, not the student.

It’s their job to find the approach to such students. I think it’s unfair to judge a kid’s behaviour without looking at the adults around them first.

I see your point, but to me, that once again signifies the ineptness of the teacher to deal with special needs students. In the case you’re describing it’s just different kind of special needs.

Mind you, it’s kids we’re talking about. Without guidance, they’ll be doing what they do.

Sure, the influence can be limited, but straight up blaming kids for things like that is, at best, unprofessional. You’re at least supposed to try working with them on the issue.

So what do you suggest? Busy work?

It’s not a student’s job to teach themself. If a student excels, they’re a special needs student.

To me, this looks like an obvious failure on the teacher’s side.

This screams: “I don’t want to parent my kids, so let the government do it instead, and do it to me too along the way.”

Do you really not see how that takes away your own agency? Both in terms of raising your kids and your own privacy.