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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not true.  In the old system, kids could be put 1, 2 or 3 years ahead and some were even 4 years ahead (rare).  At our school, classes were commonly structured as grade level + 1 year ahead extensions.  So, for example, a 2nd grader could be taking 3rd grade math with 4th grade extensions.  The unit tests tested both 3rd and 4th grade concepts.  Within one classroom some kids could be one year ahead completing one year in a year, and other kids could be working one year ahead completing two years in one year.  There was a lot of flexibility and students were pre-assessed for skills mastered for placement at the beginning of the year.  Then they were assessed in each unit.   So, it was very clear where they began, what they worked on and what they mastered.  That is not at all the case now.  
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This is not at all how it worked in my kid's school. In my kid's school, there was:

a. grade level
b. grade level + 1 with extensions +2

But given that the next year the extensions + 2 became the grade level + 1, it would still be one year of math in one year, except I guess for that first year of extensions. And there was no flexibility, either. Maybe a grade level + 1 kid went back to grade level, but a grade level kid never went ahead to grade level + 1. Where they put you in second grade is where you stayed.[/quote]

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