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[quote=Anonymous]There are ways to differentiate math lessons to be challenging to all ability levels. If you can’t, then you’re doing it wrong.  We are expected to do it all the time in England where I used to teach. There  is no AAP.  (well, not as it is here).  You want your kid to be a PM or go to Oxford? Fork out the cash for private school and get them horseback riding lessons.  I’m all for small group tracking within a heterogeneous classroom environment, but the problem with having separate classes is that it gives you zero flexibility to change those groups. Rarely, even in AAP,  do all children excel in all topics. You might have kids who are brilliant at one topic and need more help with another. But they’re not going to get that help in AAP because you’re not differentiating the curriculum. Personally, I think it’s a disservice to the child in the long run. Plus, you’re basically setting up the kids who don’t get in for failure. I have a very bright young daughter (scored in the 96th percentile on the Cogats and is currently exceeding grade level expectations in math and LA). She is told constantly by hers peers that she is “in the dumb class” because she is not in AAP. And she believes it. No matter how much we talk to her. No matter how much her counselors talk to her. No matter how much her teachers talk to her. She’s in fourth grade and she has already given up on learning. It’s sad. Luckily, her mom is a teacher so I won’t let that happen, but still. Sad. 
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