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[quote=Anonymous]Former first grade teacher. I was given a thirty second explanation by my principal when I joined my title 1 school. Young scholars are identified by the kindergarten teacher as having potential. In our school, it was primarily ESOL students who spoke Spanish at home. That doesn’t mean that it’s not implemented differently elsewhere. I was told that they were likely to bloom.

Being an educator, I know of studies where students who were randomly flagged as having potential actually made more progress than other, equally talented students. I wonder if Young Scholars the county’s way of giving underserved populations that extra boost to get them into AAP.

Another benefit of the YS program was that they were clustered together. I’d have a whole reading group of Young Scholars. It often started out below grade level, but caught up a bit more than the same level reading group in another class.

Aside from clustering the kids and flagging them for the teacher, there was nothing to the program. If your kid isn’t in it, it doesn’t affect you at all.[/quote]

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