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[quote=Anonymous][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.
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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 
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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]

Either you're not reading all the PPs, or you're just choosing to ignore them.

20:24 said this:  [quote]  I am even okay with lower the ratios to the kids who are struggling. Let the highest tested class have 24 kids and lowest tested class have 18 kids.[/quote]  I'm not that PP, but that doesn't sound like the wants to 'deny' anyone an education.  She's agreeing that the students have the right to a free education, and even agrees to lower ratios for the kids who need extra help.  That sounds reasonable to me.

Only the one poster mentioned having ESOL kids learn English on their own dime.

I'm another PP who finds this system of mixed reading groups ridiculous.  I'm sure one of these days someone will do a study showing how much time gets wasted in class due to this crap, and then we'll change everything around again.  Sure, parents aren't experts.  But, like the other PP, I also volunteer in my kids' classrooms and see how the kids are just goofing off during that reading group time.  And, I also do not blame the teachers.  There is simply no efficient way to teach 6 different groups of ability levels and give equal attention to all of them.  AND, to do ALL of the other stuff that teachers are expected to do.

You still haven't offered up a solution for how a teacher can teach all these different reading groups effectively in one classroom, without wasting the other kids times.  Please feel free to do so - I'd be interested in hearing it.

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