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[quote=Anonymous]I’d like to clarify that I am not against differentiated instruction and educating kids of different abilities and levels!

I’m talking about the maybe 1-2% of kids who really shouldn’t be in the mainstream classroom. It is not serving their needs and in many cases are negatively affecting their classmates’ learning. In at least one case I saw this week, there is a class with a kid who can barely write letters (not talking about spelling or phonics or word formation, I mean he literally cannot even copy individual letters). I’m not sure the teacher has any idea because of all the time and energy going into this other one kid.

That handful of kids (and so far it really is 1% of kids) need to be in a smaller group and they need to be taught at their level and skills built up from there.

The other big issue that bothers me is the school lunch piece. I know this is old news by now, but seeing in person the junk that is served daily to young kids is so disheartening [/quote]

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