Explain why school processes are sometimes thought to cause underachievement in some social groups

If children dont fit teachers stereotype, they may have low opinion of them.

They will treat them differently from their ideals pupils and praise them less or behave as though they were naughty or less able. Children pick up on the messages that teachers give and come to believe the labels.

Sometimes children who are clever are put in low bands because they are naughty and disrupt the lessons for the ones that could…