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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm older Gen X (closing in on 60). I was gifted in grade school in terms of reading and writing. Other than being sent to a classroom down the hall for the next grade up for the reading and writing unit, I was in the classroom with a mix of everyone and they with me. That meant I could help my classmates who were struggling with reading and writing, and the classmates who were good at math could help me. Math is where I struggled. I knew which classmates to ask for help, lol. That was the 1970s education model. It worked out well. Everybody in the classroom had a sense of their strengths and weaknesses, and we helped each other. We were all in it together. There wasn't built-in segregation like gifted programs that drove a wedge between the kids. The gifted and the not gifted coexisted together in the same room. There was no such division back then. We need to go back to that. [/quote]

I disagree with this. It shouldn't be on other kids to teach struggling kids. We pay an exorbitant amount of money in taxes for schools. Maybe instead of tons and tons of admin we could have more teachers helping in class? [/quote]

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