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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in IB and if you got C’s you were counseled out. I think we started with 250 in each class and we graduated half that so there were a lot of kids who didn’t make it. [/quote]

High School is different then ES and MS. The kids in HS should be better prepared to deal with the consequences of not maintaining needed grades. In many cases, a student not earning a C in classes in High School is aware that they are struggling because the material is too much or aware that they just are not doing the work. Telling an ES kid that they are being removed from a program because they are not doing well is a very different story. This is especially true if their parents hyped that the program is for smart kids or advanced kids or made it out to be something that makes the kid better then other kids.

Flexible groupings in ES help deal with this because kids can move between groups over the course of the year or from grade level to grade level. If kids are moving between groups it is easier for kids to accept the move. Kids know which class or grouping is the highest and which is the lowest, I am not pretending that is not the case, but if they see that their classmates are spread with some in the higher groups for math but the average or above average group for reading then the more that they can accept that kids are able to be strong in one area and not as strong in others. Movement is easier to accept. [/quote]

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