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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they aren’t learning spelling and grammar, what ARE they learning?!

These are foundational skills! 🤯 [/quote]

Seriously not as much as they should, if anything, on any given day. APS has mainstreamed classrooms and unless you're at the failing level, your kids are on their own for the most part. At least it was at our elementary school. I volunteered for reading and science lessons often and talked to a lot of parents so I pretty much knew many of the teachers and the abilities and behavior of most of the kids. I'm not saying this with absolute confirmation or conviction but what I realized after a few years was that they seemed to deliberately take a "one of each type of student in each class" in the grade approach when they assigned classes. We have all the yearbooks and looking through them, it seemed to be a pattern of social engineering and not best practices for academic learning. A similar Girl:Boy ratio is accepted as common sense these days, I guess. But they separated the gifted kids into small cohorts that each class had. They separated all the SPED kids. They even put a few of the bullies in each class to make sure none of the classes would be functional. One thing interesting was that the only exception was that they often seemed to put many of the AA kids in the same class of a grade -- so not sure if this was a student comfort thing or something else entirely.[/quote]

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