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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I am curious about your perspective as a teacher. Let's say you are the parent of a kid who is average academically, but there are lots of behavior issues in the classroom, so the teacher is forced to spend a lot of time dealing with that instead of teaching. So the need for the average well-behaved kid is not for algebra in 1st grade or whatever, but just to be taught appropriately... Is this an impossible situation? And of course the kids with behavior issues have to learn too... The job of a teacher is not easy and my hat is off to all good teachers !!!![/quote]

DC teachers are called upon to do differentiated learning -- which means addressing different levels of kids in the same classroom.  Obviously, even if the teacher is very good, if there are several different levels , this means less time spent with each differentiated set of kids.  Even less time if there are kids with behavior problems.

As long as DCPS management won't admit that there are serious learning differences among kids that can't be addressed by even the best teacher in one classroom, then the situation will continue.

This is addressed better in JH and HS when instead of acknowledging different learning levels, kids can choose different courses  e.g. IB or AP, that covertly address the concept of separating kids based on ability.[/quote]

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