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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Ignore these people who say "Why do you need to know where your child is compared to other children".[b] Why wouldn't you want to know what group they are in?[/b]. How else are you going to know if they need more help, or are accelerated and have an ability you didn't recognize. Our school differentiates in spelling, reading, and math. The teachers don't want to tell you which group they are in, but I look them in the eye at conferences and tell them I want to know. So that's how I find out. Maybe this sounds a little pushy.... but they are my children, so I think I have a right to know what group they are in. I'm not asking about other children... just my own. [/quote]

It is certainly understandable that you would want to know, but the fact is, you don't need to know. You do need to know if your child needs more help or can't be challenged in the classroom. This is not the kind of information you get individual consultation with the teacher about your child, not from ranking your kid against other kids.

I would refuse to answer a parent who asked directly about what the class groupings were and the OP's initial post spells out exactly why.

[quote]My other beef with differentiation is that they never tell you what math class your child is in. They do flexible math grouping which I like, but the accelerated teacher changes each unit (so they say) so that [b]you/the children can't figure out who is in the smart class, dumb class, whatever.[/b] For some reason this really bothers me and I wonder how it is done at other schools around here?[/quote]

I don't need that kind of classification in my classroom, thank you very much.
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