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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Here’s how they do it at View Ridge Elementary, a neighborhood school in northeast Seattle that serves all levels of students in the same classrooms.

On a recent day in a first grade classroom, seven advanced learners sat on the floor reading silently on their iPads. "

Complete dereliction of duty. [/quote]

Did you see the other caption of the kindergarten class where it is structured to provide instruction to a nonverbal student. So the teacher is expected to structure lessons to a nonverbal student, students who are a little behind, student who are on grade level, students a little above grade level and students who are really advanced?

Who this really hurts are bright low income kids. Affluent parents will pay for private schools. Middle class parents will pay for outside enrichment and tutoring for their bright kids. The low income bright students get stuck on iPads all day while the teacher concentrates on the lowest performing students. Their parents can't afford enrichment or might not realize how their kids are being ignored all day. So these bright kids struggle when they go to larger secondary schools and are mixed in with higher performing kids who got outside enrichment while they were ignored all day. [/quote]

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