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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t see how having a bunch of 16 year olds in 7th grade helps anyone, anywhere. That’s what “end social promotion” means, in practical terms. It’s a terrible, terrible, terrible idea.[/quote]

Some of the other rich countries have much better ways of dealing with academic stragglers than the equity obsessed US.

I recently visited a highly diverse government primary school in London England where upper grades students who tested a year+ behind grade level were pulled out of mainstream classrooms for intensive instruction in core subjects.  The kids who were behind were taught separately in small group settings for half the school day.  These kids were required to attend after school and Sat morning tutoring and were only permitted to return to mainstream classes once they could test at grade level.  Was that such a horrible arrangement?  Such a thoughtful system to support academic stragglers would obviously take money, organization, political will to implement, but why not do it here in DC?  The arrangement seemed to be working very well for all concerned in the UK.[/quote]

Isn’t this already DCPS policy? It’s what they did for my kid, anyway. Pretty bewildering to come on here and read that they should do it, but never will, when you’ve already lived it …[/quote]

Your kid was pulled from gen ed, taught in small groups half the day, and rquired to go to Saturday school, and not allowed to rejoin until they got their scores up?  I don't think so. Even with kids with significant learning disabilities, pull-outs are like 1-2 hrs/day and not on the weekends. [/quote]

Self-contained math, plus self-contained ELA, plus pull-outs during advisory for the LD, adds up to 3/7 periods a day. Since one of the four other classes was PE, I think it’s fair to call that half the day. Weekend sessions were optional.

Went back to gen ed ELA after getting a grade-level lexile score. Went back to gen ed math after getting a grade-level iReady score. I don’t know about “allowed,” I wasn’t looking to go back early.

I don’t see how any of that is remotely difficult to believe. [/quote]

Because as you very well know - this is just for kids with IEPs, not for kids academically behind. In fact IDEA specifically excludes kids who are behind only due to poor instruction. [/quote]

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