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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's excellent differentiation at my kids' JKLMM school; it is a particular focus of the principal's, and he has sent teachers for training to ensure they are able to teach kids at different levels in the same room. Both of my kids are advanced in reading--one reading 4+ grades above his grade level--and they are both challenged and engaged.

I'd much rather have my kids in diverse classrooms where each kid is taught as his/her level than in a pull-out G&T program.[/quote]

If you are in a JKLM school then its really a different issue.  By and large, the entire class is high SES and prepared to learn.[/quote]

Not necessarily. Not at Murch, at least, which is the school I was discussing above. Yes, large portion of school is high SES. But it's not nearly as uniform as at other JKLM schools. And from my experience pretty much every classroom has a range of learners from below grade level to very far above.

But, yes--you can't underestimate the value of family investment. It's not that Murch kids are uniformly high-ability or uniformly high-SES. It's that the families are uniformly invested in their kids' educations and provide support/continuity at home. [/quote]

[b]Honey, Murch is 9% FARMS which is pretty low and very far from the DCPS average.
http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Murch+Elementary+School
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Well, that's the same page that says Murch is 66% IB, which is off by about 20 percentage points (as has been discussed here a ton).

But even if accurate, 9% FARMS doesn't = 91% high SES. [/quote]

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