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I visited an expeditionary school to see what the kids were doing.  Definitely a pretty nice ambiance and raport between the kids and teachers, but the kids were basically getting lap tops and going to google-docs to open up their long-term projects and working on them in class.  For kids without good executive function and planning skills, or those who distract easily, I'm not sure that's the best use of a 50 minute class... [/quote]

That's what has happened to us in our expeditionary school.
Even in science, the teacher gives really complicated and rather long texts to introduce a new concept. Students read them independently or in small groups,  have to analyze everything, make sense of all the difficult words and then try to apply the new theory to a complicated project.
In English/social studies one single expedition is to be executed over months. 
How many pre-teens have the planning skills and concentration to work on such complicated and long term projects with minimal help from teachers?
Precious time is being wasted, and children are getting frustrated and thinking middle school work is tedious and utterly boring.[/quote]

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