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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's very hard to generalize whether any particular child will have a "cake walk"  So much depends on the teacher's talent and style.[/quote]

I remember when my 3rd grader scored around 250 at age 8. I thought it might be challenging for them. It wasn't. They felt compacted was super easy and wish they could've skipped it.  I think the first unit at the beginning of 4th was a review of the multiplication tables. In 5th they covered adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators. They had mastered this simply by doing Khan academy during math in 3rd grade. I think the teacher let them do this since they knew the kid understood what was otherwise being taught. It was really great to have a teacher like that.[/quote]

I wish MCPS stopped with the one size fits all approach to teaching and tried to meet kids where they are.[/quote]

Very few school’s are going to do this including private.  Just imagine what this would take for a teacher and class of 24 kids.  A teacher could easily have to prepare 5 different plans for each subject. Its already hard enough just to ensure that math and reading groups are getting adequate time, and mostly doesn’t happen for high fliers until upper elementary.  If there were more Paras on intervention specialist maybe.[/quote]

Perhaps, but right now they don't even try and there's a lot of room for improvement. They could easily just put like kids in group together.[/quote]

What do you think reading and math groups are for? Or compacted math and ELC classes? Or magnet programs?  Saying they aren’t trying is ridiculous.  You can say you want more or for it to be implemented differently or want improvement, but they can’t be accused of not trying.[/quote]

THere are no groups in compacted math. It's one size fits all as the poster stated. [/quote]. Becuase compacted math is the grouping.  There are other students not in compacted math.[/quote]

I get it it's a group of 30 kids without other groups! Cool!  Okay I was kidding the PP was right this is one size fits all.[/quote]

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