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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. My students who go through school have not fared well. No IEP and differentiated instruction can only go so far. When we are told all students must be college ready, they actually expect that all students should go be able to go to college. How well can a student fare in college who cannot keep up with grade level instruction? I really wish there were more options for students instead of “college or nothing.”[/quote]

OP, I do not mean this as criticism, but as a first grade teacher, how aware are you of what high schools in your school system are specifically doing as they advise these students about life after HS?

Our HS is well aware that college is not everyone's destination. Yes, there is a huge amount of "there is a right college for everyone" discussion, but that does not mean that students are all being pushed to shoot for the same types of colleges. At HS, the emphasis is on either finding the best college for the individual student (which means not pointing kids with learning problems or lower IQ toward colleges that will swamp them) AND there's also an emphasis on what used to be called vocational education. It still exists in public high schools though you won't hear a lot about it outside the schools --but families whose kids are better off with a vocational component absolutely know it's there. [/quote]

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