I told you so

I recommended several of my students last year for a slower more remedial course. I was very explicit in my list to the counselors why these students needed the other course if they are to graduate.

I have several of them again this year. I like the kids, this is the wrong math for them.

When my average grade on a gift test to raise their grade is a 95 and these 3 get in the 40s - you are in the wrong math. When you cannot see that + means add and - means subtract so you multiply - you are in the wrong math.

I will help them the best that I can because this is not their fault - but they are in the wrong math class.