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[quote=Anonymous]I substitute in FCPS. Both of my kids were AAP. The ESOL kids get tons of support. They are pulled out of class and worked with individually at the elementary level. In high school, they are in small classes with 2 teachers. The general classrooms have kids in them that need a lot of support, and those kids are pulled out to be worked with in small groups by special ed or ESOL teachers or both. There are also teachers that will go into a general classroom "push-in" and provide one-on-one support to individual students.

My issue with the general classroom is the kids I call 3s. They didn't get into AAP but many could handle AAP. Some of them are actually 4s, and they would have made it into AAP if someone had appealed on their behalf and/or parent paid for a WISC. Right now these kids will get pulled for advanced math class if they are lucky. One solution would be to put all the 3s in their own class and get rid of the mixed ability classroom. I don't think it serves anyone. I think an education system should serve the highest performing students if we want to remain competitive with the rest of the world. Kids shouldn't have to be bored at school, and some of the behavior problems I see are due to the fact that a smart kid is in a general class. As a teacher if I had a classroom of just truly general students, then I could give them the attention they deserve.[/quote]

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