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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I would worry that the tech-free school would have no differentiation. I am aware that screen-free differentiation is possible, but it is harder without more resources (specifically, additional teachers/coaches/support staff), almost never happens and screens definitely make it much easier. As a result, I think a tech-free school would end up losing high achieving kids once their parents realized what was happening (1st/2nd).[/quote]

And that would be a poor choice. I’d rather have my kid “undifferentiated” than stuck in front of a computer. Plus there are ways to differentiate without computers. [/quote]

You say that now but you'll feel differently when it's happening, or when your middle schooler is plodding through Math 8 rather than Algebra I and Geometry. [/quote]

lol. I am saying that now because basically every kid in Algebra I is going to have to repeat it (even the good math kids) because the computer program is so terrible and there is not even a textbook or syllabus for parents to use on their own with the kid.[/quote]

Go to Khan Academy. It’s h better than a textbook [/quote]

Khan is OK for limited purposes. It doesn’t replace an actual teacher or a textbook. [/quote]

This really just isn’t true. Khan Academy more than replaces a text book. It is a smarter and more responsive and adaptive version of a textbook. Unless you literally just prefer paper, Khan Academy is better and I’d be willing to bet more kids learn more math from Khan Academy than from a textbook. Now, it’s clearly not as good as a good (or even mediocre) teacher, but differentiation usually can’t involve an  additional teacher for every student. So assuming tech-free doesn’t mean teachers grow on trees, then I’d prefer tech for my high achieving kid assuming the normal DCPS resource constraints. And I think, despite what the say during the ECE years, many parents of high achieving kids would feel the same way by 1st or 2nd grade. Once those high achieving kids opted out, what counts as high achieving shifts and you risk a cycle (the same sort of cycle that happens in upper ES at many Montessori schools that parents love for ECE-K).[/quote]

Wow, some parents are so desperate for their child to be ‘high achieving’ they think something like Khan will be the thing that’s going to prepare them.

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