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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I had a teacher friend who cried on her last day because she had 5 different levels to teach in her grade. Kids that were two grades behind and kids were two grades ahead were in her class and she was at school adjusting her lesson plan for each group, over and over and over again. People complained that her class was disruptive because she was a bad teacher. ”

Exactly. It is not reasonable to expect teachers to manage a pacing diversity that wide. And it does not work. That is just the fact.  [/quote]

I actually had that kind of pacing in my ES back and I loved it (we had a flexible grouping structure where you could pre-test into other teachers' classes so it wasn't the same teacher nightmare you described--there was a team of teachers across multiple grades so each teacher wasn't trying to individually differentiate--students would take a pre-assessment and then would go to an appropriate level grouping).   But they didn't think through what happens after you finish the ES curriculum and are too young for MS--so I just basically hung out in the library working on my own with one other kid in the same boat for over a year for most academic content and then went to MS a year early anyway.  I also think I passed things often because I could intuit tests well but would have benefited from more solidified review even if I scored perfect on a pre-assessment. It was a hard adjustment after that to go back to teachers telling me what to do in MS and had I not been on sports teams and in dance, it would have been rough socially.[/quote]

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