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[/quote] I'm always going to support a student's right to access the appropriate level of instruction over an elementary school teacher's desire to only teach one subject.  If a school can't possibly figure out how to deliver advanced language arts instruction to all kids who need it as well as advanced math to all who qualify, then the school shouldn't departmentalize.

FWIW, my kids' school didn't departmentalize at all until 6th grade.  In 6th, math wasn't departmentalized, and the other subjects only were to some degree.  They also clustered all of the advanced language arts kids in the same classroom to facilitate appropriate instruction.  It worked fine.  It's not exactly rocket science for each ES teacher to handle all or most of the ES subjects.  In many ways, it worked better for math, since the school could provide more instructional levels.  One class was advanced math.  One was kind of between grade level and advanced math.  One was purely grade level.  One was grade level with heavy ESOL support.  And one was below grade level with the resource teacher.  Every child could switch into the most appropriate class for their needs.

If a school is creative, I think they could make instructional levels like this work even with departmentalization.  They could group students into homerooms based on instructional needs.  They could semi-departmentalize, where some teachers handle both math and science while others handle both language arts and history.  They could utilize the AART or resource teachers as additional teachers or support.  [/quote]

Sadly, ES classes aren’t departmentalized in FCPS. Only Math is for some reason.[/quote]

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