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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers love to blame poverty because they don't want to be held responsible or have to switch to a rigorous content-rich curriculum. This debate (among others) really sorts out those who are in their profession for good reasons -- to help ALL kids develop their talents, even if it requires hard work on the teacher's part -- and those who are not.[/quote]

In APS what you're asking for is impossible.  The lack of tracking in any classroom makes it impossible to have level appropriate rigorous content-rich curriculum.  If you really want to help ALL kids, you need to sort them out so that teachers can motivate each level of student.  Please contact the school board and lobby the principals to separate the kids if you really care.  Most parents are asking for a la carte remedies for their own chilld and this isn't possible unless your kid is the anchor dragging down SOL "pass" numbers, which is unfortunately how teachers are evaluated.  Because parents don't know how to teach their kids anything in life except that feeling good all the time is a must in life and complaining or acting out when you get bored.[/quote]

You are definitely someone to take advice from.

Definitely.[/quote]

Teachers roll their eyes when people like you show up for conference.  Judging from your lack of understanding of education, I can tell two things already: you didn't have a good education (and I don't mean this or that college because admissions are fungible) and your children are not gifted so you fail to recognize the the challenges that students face in a blended classroom environment.  I'm not a trained teacher but I have tutored or taught classrooms with these kinds of kids: ELL, deaf, URM at poorly performing schools, a foreign language, SAT for kids seeking very high scores, and every traditional subject in middle school.  None of these was as a substitute teacher and were outside of school.  All of these kids were reachable individually or with similarly performing kids and I was able to improve their skills.  If I had mixed these kids all together into one class, some of them wouldn't have behaved well, others would be bored to death, and the vast majority would not have reached their intellectual ceiling for whichever subject was being taught.  By separating the kids, you can tease out and focus on the deficient areas, which will lead to vast improvements, an overall sense of accomplishment, and a love for learning.[/quote]

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