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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it ironic that the people pushing for more classroom segregation are often the ones talking about mixing the buildings the most. As if the ideas of mixing class rooms are toxic but mixing the buildings provides magic benefits.  Or as if putting high achievers off to the side as to not be affected by the plebeians is noble in academics but immoral for SES academics.

Your desire to keep your child untethered is no different than the W’s desire, and poor kids and the education gap could be helped by just mixing kids by age and letting the rest fall where it may. But on the same token we have to be honest that the collective is help back by the weight of the needy and inept. [/quote]

Truth [/quote]

This is borderline incomprehensible.[/quote]

Agree.  [/quote]

I don't

It draws the parallels between some parents who believe that clustering kids in classrooms often by SES and calling them gifted isn't that different from parents attempting to cluster kids in schools often by SES and calling them privileged. It is all about concentrating resources and targeting them towards those who need them the least at the expense of kids with less.

-You don't think kids at the bottom of the education gap wouldn't benefit from having more CES kids in their class?  
-How is that different than poor kids benefiting from having rich kids integrated into their poor school?  Some might say it is the exact same conversation.

I see the point 
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Curriculum 2.0 (2011-2019) got rid of differentiation and acceleration in k-12, forcing the one teacher of 22-28 ES kids, to provide it herself. She was lucky if Titile 1 or esol school since then she’d have a teachers aide with her or a smaller class size.  
Grades 6-8 this was/is even more pronounced: Huge middle schools, Different races in each of your classes of 30-33 students, Zero differentiation in ability. Basically one third of the class was engaged, and that is if they wanted to speak up in front of the 2/3s class that sat around in their phone or chrome book.

The Zero ability differentiation experiment MCPS did with our children failed. Big time. They are slowly playing catch up, but to date it has been wholly inadequate.

The only curricula working in MCPS is the magnet programs and the high schools. After that, MCPS is failing esol kids, farm kids, poorly performing kids, average performing kids, neglected top students. [/quote]

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