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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not necessarily a problem for your kid's education - you're involved parents who probably read to your kid at home, so your kid will learn and will achieve or exceed grade level.

The problem is that the teacher will be busy with the other kids in the classroom.  Your kid will be doing independent reading or art projects while the teacher works with the other kids; the teacher will not have time to regularly meet with the higher reading groups.  Your kid will definitely notice the disparity.  They may feel left out, or bored, or happy for the reprieve, depending on the kid and age; you may feel it's harmless, or not.

Unfortunately, moving to a suburban district doesn't necessarily help this.  We ended up in private. [/quote]

This is a valid point. Teachers in classrooms with large numbers of students not meeting benchmarks end up meeting with the students that don’t meet benchmarks most frequently. I’m reading specialist and help classroom teachers plan for instruction, and I frequently see the highest students doing the most independent busywork.  There are some schools in the suburbs that provide alternate instruction to advanced learners so this isn’t a big deal. DCPD doesn’t do this.  [/quote]

At our upper NW DC school the specialists sometimes pulled out small groups for more advanced work (as well as those on the less advanced end). [/quote]

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