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Yes, but in DC it is quite common to have middle school and high school students who are reading and doing math at a second grade level or thereabouts. :roll:  Tell me how in class differentiation works under those circumstances?

If differentiation works, then why are there so many illiterate students in DC? You cannot blame the family on failure to teach students to at least read and do basic math of multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, fractions, decimals, and percents. I am not buying that at all since schools have kids as a captive audience so they should be able to teach basic literacy and math.

For the record, I am for offering gifted classes for any students able to do the work with passing grades.

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sigh, such an expert. If you're that good roll up your sleeves and get in the trenches and become a teacher and see if you can work miracles. Enough with the volunteer to teach motivated gifted kids  :roll: [/quote]

Yes, but many schools here and nationwide messed around with fuzzy reading and math instruction by not emphasizing phonics, spelling, grammar, math facts, and computational skills. This sort of thing certainly does not help these students at all. Nor does low behavioral expectations in schools.[/quote]

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