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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Links to this empirical evidence? I don't buy it. My daughhter's first grade teacher told me during a conference that having kids coming in and out of classes is disruptive. I am talking ESOL, and kids of various disabilities, not to mention kids that are just disruptive. My daughter is bored to tears because her class is primarily esol kids that have not mastered english at a first grade level. The lesson is dumbed down to accomade the majority. Not to mention a couple of the kids are troublemakers so now the teacher has to babysit them. If I could afford to move, I'd get the heck out of montgomery county.  My tax dollars paying to teach someone english? No thank you, learn the language on your own dime. Only in America.[/quote]

The empirical evidence exists. If you're interested, you can start by Googling "within-class ability grouping". If you're not interested, because you already know you're right anyway, then you don't have to bother.

And if you don't think that children who are learning English, and children with disabilities, have an equal right to an education, then yes, you will be unhappy in Montgomery County. Indeed, you will be unhappy anywhere in public school in the US, since

1. according to federal law, children with disabilities have a right to a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. Google "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act".
2. according to the US Supreme Court, depriving children of an education based on their immigration status violates their equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. Google "Plyler v. Doe".[/quote]

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