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DP.  When my oldest was in 6th grade gen ed, her classroom had 28 students, the bulk of them being ESOL or below grade level.  Out of the 10 hours per week spend in language arts block, my DD's above grade reading group met with the teacher at most 15 minutes per week, and often 0 minutes per week.  They were expected to teach themselves via Raz kids or imagine learning, or they were expected to read quietly to themselves.  
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This is exactly what happened at our middle/upper middle SES elementary last year. Distance learning demanded so much from teachers to keep so many kids close to grade level, that higher level students went a month without teacher-led reading instruction. They were told to work together on books. Now we're told the bar is raised for them because they're lucky to be surrounded by smart peers and they can just learn from each other.[/quote]

PP.  In my DD's case, this all happened before the pandemic.  Equity meant completely ignoring the above average kids and not teaching them much of anything.[/quote]

When you pull out so many kids for AAP, the ones who are at or above grade level in gen get utterly screwed. They class becomes more proportionally weighted towards below grade level and they get left to fend for themselves. [/quote]

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