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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, you’re talking about grouping the kids for math and word study/reading or are you talking about individual teachers teaching different subjects (A teaches math, B teaches reading...).

If it’s the former, that’s a huge loss for the kids.  This principal is such a bad development for Haycock.  Seems like a nice guy but totally inexperienced and really bad at written communication.[/quote]

PP, the departmentalization issue that has come up refers to the latter. That teachers specialize in one area and then teach all the grade's classes in that one subject. For example, a fifth grade class might spend a large portion of the day with the homeroom teacher but then switch classes for math and social studies.

As for the former, THE PRINCIPAL HAS ALREADY DONE THIS!!!! Totally under the radar, without any announcements, after the teachers made completely contradictory statements: kids in certain grades have stopped being differentiated this year in Math. The advanced gen ed kids, who formerly were allowed to join AAP classes no longer are--or it has been made much more difficult in a way that is inconsistently applied--and instead we were informed a) that "mixed classrooms" are an educationally superior model and b) that advanced children would get "enrichment" (which I can tell you arrived in the form of a worksheet labeled "enrichment" about four times this year.[/quote]

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