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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If you teach someone way over their head, they won't learn anything. They will shut down and go away (or become a behavior problem so that they can get away).

Have you ever taught?

So apparently your approach is, if you have a classroom with 25 4th graders, but 5 of them are at a 1st grade level, you dumb the whole class down to a 1st grade level so as to not teach over anyone's head, because you think it's "inappropriate?" 
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No, did I say that?  You say that is my "apparent approach".  You are making a leap there.  I said nothing about "dumbing down the whole class".  No, not at all.  You need to have another teacher to help for the 5 so that they aren't LEFT BEHIND.  Because they will be left behind if you don't.  This is where the feds can help.  The feds will continue to say that we are leaving those 5 kids behind if we don't get appropriate instruction for them.  We will continue to have to test them using tests that are way over their heads and they will continue to fail year after year.  They just get further and further behind.  And, you are correct that we cannot meet their needs and there is nothing we can do about it if we don't get help.  But we might be punished for something we have no control over. [/quote]

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