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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your youngest is not in HS, it will not impact them but we have multiple good teachers leaving MCPS or to other schools, which makes me question our admin.  If they treat the teachers just as bad as the parents, or worse, I can see why they'd leave.[/quote]

The compacted math elimination will also drive teachers away, as they will be expected to cover all levels of learning in one class which is basically impossible.  Again, teachers don’t want this, parents don’t want this — and the Board and Taylor are just shoving it down our throats.  [/quote]

Actually the cluster grouping is meant to reduce that.  So if there are say six levels of students, teachers are only dealing with 2-3 of those levels.[/quote]

Cluster grouping slightly reduces the range from classrooms that are already totally mixed-- the range within classes in cluster grouping is either a) below-average up to way-above-average/highly-gifted, or b) way-below-average up to above-average.   (In the most common handbook on cluster grouping, they have 5 levels of kids and classes either have levels 1-4 or 2-5.  So this is better than classrooms with levels 1-5, i.e. most K-3 classrooms.)

However, when you are replacing already-cohorted classes (where currently some teachers teach 1-2 and the rest teach 3-5) with cluster grouping, then this dramatically increases the range of students teachers have to teach.

It is also especially difficult in math, where you are not just trying to provide the same basic curriculum with enrichment layered on, but you are instead trying to accelerate only one portion of your class to cover an entirely different set of standards than the rest of the class.[/quote]

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