ANALYSIS OF: Clasification of students: competitiveness and diversity.

In our group we have had differents experiences according to competitiveness and diversity as we came from different backgrounds.

On the one hand, we agree that there wasn't a lot of competitiveness, as children didn't care about the others results. As Sylvia says: "If I try to remember the primary school first I noticed less competition during the four years (as a child). Is was about being good enough to tell the parents about the grades."  Besides, as we were growing, the competitiveness increased a lot. We think that in part this is because of the exams of the access of university and the pressure of teachers, "another thing that increased the inequality and the competitiveness were the exams and the califications" (Águeda).
Furthermore, competition can sometimes be good, "I believe that competition is important, but only in certain situations and a small extent" (Noah).

On the other hand, talking about diversity, two of us didn't have any contact with people with disabilitites, but there were a few from different cultures and religions.

One bad experience was of Burcu:  "I can clearly remember that there was only one boy in my class who was displaying social and emotional behavioral problems. And this only child was sent to a “special school” because the teacher couldn’t handle him" We don't agree with this separation as we think that if a student needs some type of help, teachers should do anything they can to make the children feel comfotable. 
However, there were also good experiences, as in Águeda school, "there was children of different social classes and we share our class with the disables ones (they were with us almost every time)."
We don't talk about diversity just as in the inclusive issue, as we also see it in the differences between private and public schools. With this, we are making a separations between different social classes.

In conclussion, we guess that in a school, competitiveness and diversity should be worked in a different way as the actual one. Competitiveness should be taught in a positive way, and teachers should be carefull while teaching it. Also, schools should be more inclusive, and make the children realised that everybody has the same value, and teachers should be well qualified in this area.