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I promise that most of the teachers aren't super excited about doing assessments now. But groups need to be made for small group instruction, and getting an idea where everybody is as quickly as possible is the way to make it happen. Don't fret...in most schools the groups are flexible, so if the kiddos didn't do their finest on the first week of school and show off that they are better readers/adders/etc later on, they'll move again.

Relax. There's a lot of months left for triple question marks. Start slow.[/quote]

I agree but why is the entire month (and I mean entire!) of Jan and May doing reassessments.  People who are PC and don't want classrooms based on ability (god forbid your child is not in the highest) are somehow content with this constant yearly assessments and regrouping of reading groups.  When I was in school the entire class was at or near your ability.  The higher the knowledge, the higher the ratios.  The lower knowledge had lower ratios and reading specialists come in to work with them.  I don't understand why this is not done anymore.  One section for reading/writing and another section for math.  [/quote]

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