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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't act like it isn't possible!  Please.  MCPS used to do this type of differentiation (as recently as a couple of years ago).  It isn't that hard to do.  The issue s that there is a new PHILOSOPHY at play in MCPS. That philosophy dictates that all kids should be together and not much acceleration or enrichment should happen.  Please don't allow yourself to be fooled into believing this new 2.0 way is the only way to teach. It is a new way and it simply isn't working for many, many kids.[/quote]

[b]This. If you don't think reducing achievement gap is the major motivation for public education, you have delibrately been avoiding the facts. [/quote][/b]
As it should be -- as the goal of public education is  -- wait for it -- TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC. And just because they are doing that doesn't mean all the brilliant kids or middle of the road kids are being held back. Not only that...but there is differentiation at my school...in reading and math. [/quote]

Differentiation in reading GROUPS, not classes. It isn't allowed at MCPS anymore. They used to assign classes based on reading levels. Now it is just a smorgasbord of kids with various reading groups within them. So the highest reading group gets little sit downs with their group and most of their time sitting at a desk doing busy work. If they grouped by classes they could work as a class and occasionally meet in smaller groups. I would think this would be easier for a teacher and students. But the powers that be think it is not politically correct. Yet they do it for math without issue? [/quote]
My daughter is in a reading group in a class - works for her -- and for me. I could not care less that she is not in an entirely separate class -- what she is getting is working. She's in the 3rd grade and is reading,writing and comprehending way beyond her grade level. I don't feel like anything is holding her back. There is only so much a school can do and they have done a lot.[/quote]

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