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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I miss the day teachers gave enrichment assignments for students who needed it. No student was labeled.[/quote]
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Teachers in a mixed classroom can provide proper acceleration.  It is not that hard.  Sure, some of the instruction is targeted to the whole class, [b]but good teachers have been grouping since forever.[/b][/quote]

That's not entirely true.  In the past, kids who didn't meet a minimum standard failed the grade and needed to retake it.  Now, everyone passes and moves onto the next grade level, even if they're years below grade level and putting in no effort to fix that.  In the past, teachers perhaps had to accommodate kids ranging from slightly below grade level through several years above. [b] Now, they have to accommodate a range from many years below grade level through many years above. [/b] There's too broad of a range of abilities for effective differentiation, especially when teachers are often required by admin to give the lion's share of their time to the below grade level kids.  [/quote]

The bolded may happen, but it is not common.  And, teachers are NOT required to give the lion's share of time to the below grade level kids.

As for retention, it has been many decades since we had wholesale retention.

And, to get many years below grade level, you are talking about middle and high school.  
Quit exaggerating.

You do know that teachers effectively taught in one room schoolhouses.  Not ideal, but it can be done.

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