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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leveled classes would help so much for all students and teachers. Why MCPS won’t allow it is beyond me.[/quote]

I was friends with an admin (not this district) who was responsible for making the classes and asked exactly what goes into it. She said "certain students are harder to teach, maybe for behavioral reasons or because theyre behind academically. So we want to make sure those students are divided evenly between the classes so no one teacher gets too many in their roster. The same with the easy kids, it wouldnt be fair if one teacher got a class of little angels who are advanced. It would be bad for everyone's morale."[/quote]

This is 100 percent the reason we don’t have meaningful enrichment time anymore. There is enough of a correlation between advanced kids and well behaved kids that pulling those kids out into a separate class apparently leaves behind other classes that are unmanageable to the teachers. Our principal told us the push is coming from central office. At our school the compacted math and the ELC (when we used to have ELC) classes were larger than the average class, so by pulling those students in to a single class, the on level students actually had smaller class sizes. But apparently this was still not enough (for who, I don’t know. Possibly the principal of the school’s perception of what the Central office wanted?)

So my question OP is if you feel there should be meaningful instruction for above level students and if you have voiced this to your administrators. I know many parents are worried compacted math will get dissolved as well now that ELC has been demolished and it would be nice to know that at least some teachers support the students who love learning.[/quote]

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