Is that a fish ladder next to the road there?
It funny about lowering your expectations. Indeed desire is the root of all suffering.
When I was teaching a fellow was giving a presentation about how non-native English speakers were not doing as well with English as native speakers, they had a chart comparing the two. They were lamenting that there were differences in the two lines on the chart. They suggested taking resources from the native speakers to prop up the non native speakers. I said that would work to fix their problem, by reducing the performance of the English speakers down to the level of non native speakers.
They didn't like that very much.
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Fish ladder??? haha
Yep, I can see why they wouldn't have liked that suggestion! Though it would have most likely solved the problem.
it's a device that often looks like a big pipe that spawning fish can use to swim upstream past artificial dams.
It would have solved what they were choosing to define as a problem, frankly I think you have a problem if your native speakers are not doing better than non-native speakers on an English test.