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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Close the achievement gap by making the curriculum linear rather than age-based.  Each child must meet certain milestones and then is moved to the next level.  Obviously, the first level will involve skills that are typically learned before school.  We don't freak out if more kids of color or immigrants are in those more basic classes.  It is not enlightened or compassionate to move kids up through the grades without basic skills.  Test and move kids up frequently.  Obviously we will need some divisions by age groupings but EVERYONE starts with the basic level and then moves through the curriculum.  If a kid moves here with no skills at 14, they enter a vocational program, not the college track.  Extensively use parent or community volunteers to provide one on one teaching to kids in the lower level.  All hands on deck to help as many kids as possible.[/quote]

This would never happen because all of the poor kids would be at the bottom and many of them are minorities so people would call this racist practices. [b]Maybe we should go back to the day when there were zero expectations for a child when they showed up in KG. It's okay that students can't _____________[/b]_. Now, if a kid shows up in KG and isn't on reading behaviors, they are already below grade level. I've had some interesting conversations with parents at mt Title 1 school when they learn that their child who just started school is already below grade level. Most of them had no idea that they were "supposed" to do anything to prepare them for KG. They don't know how much school has changed since they were there. [/quote]

Not understanding your point. This is the way it is now. When my kid was in K, she was bored out of her mind (along with some other kids in the classroom) because they were waiting for the other kids who didn't know their colors, numbers, shapes, etc. to catch up.[/quote]

This is one of the big reasons[b] we paid 1.9mil for our home in a high achievers suburb.[/b] Most of the class is above grade level and it is the teachers trying to catch up. I[b] simply don’t want to normalize low expectations or poor behavior[/b] while saying “they have a tough home life”. My kids don’t and need different structure and are not there to balance the systems test scores in some meh neighborhood. [b] They can learn empathy later if they need to.[/b][/quote]

I'm glad you had that much money but honestly around here you do not need to pay that much for a high achiever suburb unless your only definition of such is either Bethesda or Potomac. We paid 750K for ours in neither one of these 2 areas but yet our kids attend a school that are filled with high achieving students.[/quote]

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