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[b]Well since my one child is in 6th and my other in 1st, I guess all 8 teachers I have witnessed have poor classroom management.[/b]  Wait, I take that back.  How can a teacher TEACH to a class if she spends 1.5hrs of the day, pulling aside a few kids at a time.  Oh, wait she can't, especially when she has 25-32 kids in a class.  It is not the teacher, it is the style of teaching MCPS wants to have.  Trying to be politically correct and blend the kids.  Kids who are reading at 2-3 grade levels above and kids who can't read or don't even speak English.  Neither group of kids are getting the direct teaching/learning they deserve.  [/quote]

Maybe they do all have poor classroom management. Or maybe you have unrealistic expectations. Because it actually is possible to teach kids reading without separating them into different classes.

Parents on DCUM like to assert that MCPS is doing within-class differentiation because of "political correctness". (Whatever that means.) An alternative explanation is that [b]MCPS is doing within-class differentiation because that's what works best for the most children, with the resources MCPS has.[/b][/quote]

Can you explain this further?  (we're new to MCPS)

I know that the ES we're zoned for has 4 K classes with about 20 students each.  Why wouldn't they just separate out the kids based on reading ability at the beginning of the year?  It would use the same amount of 'resources', right?  Same teachers.  Same classroom.  What is the down side?
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How do they sort? Reading? Math? What if a child excels in one area and not in another? What if a child has a leap of ability during the year and goes from "the bottom" to "the top"? Or what if a child stagnates and goes from being advanced to average? Do you reorder the classes throughout the year to accommodate these changes?[/quote]

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