What should they do

Excellent question. I think first of all, the school should have specialized teachers to deal with students in that situation.

this isn't particularly an answer to your question, but I think it is sort of linked:

When I was growing up, there was a 'remedial' section for the weaker students. The school I went to had three different classes for each grade level. So, they would categorize all the students and divide them up into level. For example, there was group A that was the strongest, group B was good and then group C was average. Any student lower would be put into remedial. I remember that often times students from remedial would get stronger and get bumped back up to group C or B.

Fast Forward to now and I remember when my son went to school in the states, they just integrated all the students together in a classroom due to lack of government funding. While that may seem ok, it was stressful on the teacher because she was dealing with all types of students - some had serious learning disabilities, had handicaps, etc. Finding a 'middle ground' to teach to was almost impossible! But, kuddos to her because I don't know if I would have made it a week in that situation! She made the classroom quite kid friendly - she set up little 'centers' where there was an area with pillows on the floor for reading, computers in another area, blocks for making patterns, etc.

So, I guess my answer would be to say that they need to really have someone specialized for those kids, and put them in a separate setting. It may seem like pulling them away from the group, but I think it might be easier on them if they were surrounded by kids in the same situation. Know what I mean?

Yes but who will listen.