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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a kindergarten teacher and the students who struggle almost always test out with IQs in the low 70s. It takes them a very long time to learn new things. If an average kid learns letter names and sounds in the first few months of kindergarten, it takes these students until the end of the year or even into first grade to learn the same information. They fall behind from the beginning and never catch up. They just need a lot more repetition that cannot always be given in a school day. The same students who struggle in kindergarten are the same students who struggle in every subsequent grade level. Some of them have more determination but many give up by late elementary school and become behavior issues. [/quote]

It’s such a travesty that these facts are being ignored. So everyone has to waste time, teachers get aggravated and quit, all because some people don’t want to face reality because it’s not PC or whatever. Very sad.[/quote]

Agree, asking a k-8 teacher to teach to 3-5 different learning levels in the same classroom, same class topic absurd. And worse if ESOL too.

In the 80s and 90s there would be leveled reading and math and you’d take your textbook (gasp!) and notebook to your appropriate 3rd or 4th grade classroom for those subjects.

Unclear if this changed due to the PC police or No Child Left Behind/ Common Core curriculum and standards mess. [/quote]

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