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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Leveled classes would help so much for all students and teachers. Why MCPS won’t allow it is beyond me.[/quote]

I was friends with an admin (not this district) who was responsible for making the classes and asked exactly what goes into it. She said "certain students are harder to teach, maybe for behavioral reasons or because theyre behind academically. So we want to make sure those students are divided evenly between the classes so no one teacher gets too many in their roster. The same with the easy kids, it wouldnt be fair if one teacher got a class of little angels who are advanced. It would be bad for everyone's morale."[/quote]

This is a real concern.  IMO the best way to handle it is to have differing class sizes to counterbalance this (and also because kids who are behind need more focused attention and smaller teacher:student ratios, so it's good for the students as well as the teacher.). So if a teacher has a class full of advanced, easy students (I know those are not exactly the same thing-- if there are more difficult kids in the advanced group, adjust accordingly), they get a class of like 30 students.  The teacher with the most challenging kids has a class of like 15 (or less if they're really challenging, or a para to help.)  The teacher with the in-between class has a more in-between size. [/quote]

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