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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, why not?  The underserved students at Meridian are who IT wants to reach.  [/quote]

Of course!  But not all parents (especially those who are ELL and FARMS families) even want a progressive, child-centered approach for their children's educations. They are more comfortable with traditional "I'm the teacher and I know best" direct instruction that includes worksheets and desks in rows and uniforms. We seek out schools for ourchildren based on our assumptions of what is best in education and on our own history of schooling. So IT looks and is very different from a typical model you'll see in most public schools that serve high ELL and FARMS populations.  Doesn't mean it's better, just different. And unless those parents seek out that difference, the population will continue to be what it currently is. [/quote]

This is such a miopic vision of what ELL or FARMS parents want for their children.
The concept of progressive and child centered instruction is wonderful in theory. However teachers and schools are getting so caught up in the concepts and in some cases the expeditions that they are losing focus of the reality of matters; and when  children lack the basic tools (thus the old fashioned grammar, spelling and structured and guided writing assignments) to express themselves, chaos is happening, where students and parents are getting frustrated, teachers don't seem to know what to do think it's not part of their job description. A few years of this and here you have  high school drop outs because they are so behind there is no way to catch up ...[/quote]

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