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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]

Also, we have asked VDOE to provide us more information on the resources they are planning to provide to teachers, or more in-depth examples of what differentiated content looks like under their plan, or asked them simply to state that under the new curriculum, students will be able to be pushed at a pace/rigor currently provided by accelerated options, and they have refused to answer these questions during their town hall events (and when we email them, we get very politically/wishy-washy language). So they appear to be ducking the issue, which again, leads us to believe they don't have answers to these questions - which yeah, means our kids on both ends of the ability/achievement spectrum are going to get kicked to the side and ignored.[/quote]

It's pretty well known what they will do.  You see this on rec sports teams.  Coaches are advised that instead of having a specific target, kids are asked to try and beat targets that meet their goal.  So say they managed to dribble thru 12 checkpoints in a minute while another kid did 20.  Then next time the first kid has a target of 12 while the other has a target of 20.
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