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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How can at grade level kids be challenged in a classroom of most of the kids are performing well below grade level?  It can't be done. No parent would put their child in such a position. DCPS and other school districts can't wish away this fact. [/quote]

Tell that tot he administrator who hold teacher's responsible for students' growth via IMPACT![/quote]

Teachers should prefer growth over achievement. There are schools (Jefferson is one of them) that gets a bunch of kids who read on a 3rd grade level up to an 8th grade level in three years. Schools that can do that should be commended. But I agree that parents who have 5th graders who already read on an 8th grade level are understandably leery of sending their kids to a place like Jefferson, because they don't trust that the school will also be able to do that. The teachers are obviously gifted, and if there were a bunch of advanced kids entering, I'm sure they would make a bunch of progress n a separate class. But [b]no parent wants their kid to be the only advanced one, or even part of a handful of advanced kids.[/b][/quote]

And no parent wants their average, on grade level student to be with below grade level students - those parents are looking for fellow students to pull them up.[/quote]

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