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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]WOW! I hope the school gets better. In all honesty though, sometimes a diverse school does make it harder for everyone involved. Our school is extremely diverse and I see the challenges. Thankfully, all of my DCs got into AAP, and I am not being rude, rather just being honest, as the focus in Gen Ed was too much on the lower end of the bracket and not enough at the upper end. Differentation is a great word and has a wonderful meaning, it just doesn't work well in really mixed learning groups. [/quote]

Of course it doesn't when you take out all of the achieving children.  Teacher[/quote]

So, teacher, we're supposed to leave more advanced kids in their general ed classrooms so they can help raise their schools' scores? No thanks. The previous poster is absolutely right: The focus in our general ed experience was entirely on trying to raise scores in a school where there were many kids needing remedial help. And the claims that there was differentiation in the work so that the more advanced kids could get what they needed were just not true, even though a few teachers made an effort. Had my kid stayed where she was and not gone into AAP she would have ended up like my friend's kid who stayed put - by sixth grade he was regularly being told to help other kids once he breezed through his too-easy work. The teachers did not have the time or the resources to create more challenging or interesting work for him in any meaningful way, and he ended up bored and frustrated at being told to go tutor the other kids because the teachers were already swamped with trying to help so many kids who needed help.[/quote]

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