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[quote=Anonymous]2nd grade:  three different levels for spelling, don't know how many groups there are for reading and math.  I believe my child is in the top group for reading just b/c I know DC's DRA scores were high from the end of first grade.  I'm also sure DC is not in the top math group b/c the AART teacher comes to meet with other kids for math.  This is all to say that no one has ever told me about the groups my child is in, but I have figured out some of it myself.

I'm not convinced that differentiation is all it's cracked up to be.  In practice, it seems like the teacher is so busy dealing with small groups of kids that the rest of the class is left unto their own devices for long stretches most days.  My DC gets to meet with the teacher for a small group lesson once a week.  The rest of the time she reads to herself.  This was the same in first grade (when most couldn't "read" well enough to do it independently).  Seems like in a county like Fairfax, my child should be getting more than 15 min. of teacher time in reading each WEEK.  I wonder if maybe we were better off with the old style where the teacher taught to the whole class for the WHOLE day.  Seems like the kids who are meeting the benchmarks are just left on their own a lot under the current theories of "teaching."[/quote]

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