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Why assume the work won’t be challenging in different ways? 
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Well, the classroom teachers on this thread and the ones I know IRL are stating that they won't be able to challenge the top kids in heterogeneous classes.  There's only so much a teacher can do if the lesson is on adding two digit numbers, some kids are still struggling to add single digit numbers, while others mastered this skill in preschool.  The only examples that have been given are group projects and drafting the advanced kids to act as teachers' helpers.  That might be "challenging in different ways," but it won't be challenging in the right way.  [/quote]

PP adding to the above:  
Almost everyone with an advanced kid in a heterogeneous classroom has had a similarly experience to my kids.  They get ignored by the teacher and stuck either on computer programs or doing busywork while the teacher focuses on the struggling students.  They're bored and completely unchallenged.  Schools and teachers have peddled the idea for years that they can differentiate for and challenge all learners, yet it never pans out.  Why would any of us have any faith that this time, they really mean it and will somehow be able to produce the appropriate challenge that they've been incapable of producing for the last many years?

For many of our kids, advanced math classes were the one refuge they had from being ignored and unchallenged all day.  They will be so much worse off when they're losing even that one hour of actually being taught.  [/quote]

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