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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was the year 2000.  But that just proves my point.  Many ideas and reforms aren't novel new ideas, they are updates/reboots/refined versions of older ideas.  So flexible groupings were the status quo in the 80's to 90's, the pendulum moved away from that.  We then saw things like balanced literacy and "new" math.  Things seem to move further left with the equity focus, etc.  Are we starting to go back towards the center?[/quote]

So last century.

Flexible groupings are far more equitable than AAP. 
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But any teacher will let you know that flexible grouping is not consistently used, especially in FCPS.[/quote]

Neither is AAP.  Why do some kids have to change schools?  Why do some kids get their own AAP class at their base school?  Why do some kids have to change classes to AAP just for Math?  Why do some not get any true AAP class but a mixture of L4 eligible and L3 high achievers?  [/quote]

+1
AAP is a mess and the different "L2, L3, L4" labels are just nonsense that means nothing.  [/quote]

Are t those labels the different groups? I.e. differentiation[/quote]

They can mean whatever the school/teacher wants them to mean.  There is no consistency, it's just (as another poster said) an easy way to appease parents who want to believe their kid is getting something special.  [/quote]

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