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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Everyone was challenged. Parents were much less stressed because they didn’t have to worry about prepping their kids for tests in first grade that would determine their academic path for the next seven years. Everyone was much happier. Nobody even knew which group they were in, so as far as the kids were concerned they were all on the same level. But we can’t do that here. We’ve got to be elitist somehow. ”

There is support for AAP from many parents because in K-2 FCPS schools do exactly what you said - a group for this or that level in a mixed room. And their experience 9 times out of 10 is that the fast group barely meets with the teacher as her time is focused much more heavily on the slower groups. It’s frustrating to have such unequal amounts of teacher time over and over. [/quote]

+1 In theory, I have no problem with the way the first PP is running her class.  It's fine to have mixed ability classes with many levels if the teacher is somehow capable of challenging everyone.  In practice, among the 12 ES teachers my kids have had, only one of them was capable of challenging and stretching every kid in the classroom.  The other 11 ignored the advanced kids and stuck them on edu-tainment computer programs all day.  My kids have had many years where their reading group met with the teacher for only 15 minutes every second week.  [/quote]

Yep, it's a matter of degree. Even AAP classrooms are mixed ability, it's just a narrower range of abilities (and in turn allows Gen Ed classes to have a narrower range of abilities as well)... and is feasible to teach groups in those environments to their level, but throw them all into one classroom and it just becomes too much for a teacher to manage and teach effectively, their time just gets split too many ways (and is that many more lesson plans and such to coordinate each week), else you force some kids into groups ill-suited to their level because you have to reduce the # of groupings.[/quote]

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