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[quote=Anonymous]Agree that grouping by skill level would alleviate the need for AAP.

My kid (now a senior) got 15 minutes of small group reading time with her teacher PER WEEK in first grade.  I know this b/c I volunteered in the class to help the slow readers and I asked my kid how often she got to go to the teachers table.

ONCE A WEEK for 15 min.  Other than that it was "entertain yourself time" at the "stations."  How is that any kind of learning?

At least back in the 1970s when I was a kid, we got group time (10 kids in a group) where we read aloud as a group through the Dick and Judy reader series.  We were actually READING aloud in a group.  Now in the 2000's, my kid was left to her own devices for about 8 hours per week, and she got 15 min. of direct small group instruction.

I can't say that things improved!

And my kid, the next year, tested in the 99th percentile for verbal on the CogAT.

15 min. per week is not an adequate education.

There are FCPS elementary schools that do group kids and have them switching classes in the early grades.  Sangster did this for the non-AAP kids.  Essentially, they made a whole room of top reading kids, a middle group and a lower group.  At least in that situation EVERYONE gets an equal level of instruction.  That's the kind of EQUITY we never hear about.[/quote]

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