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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is not failure to differentiate in K and a lack of bespoke accelerated educations for children of strivers; that has never been a part of public school. For decades, reading wasn't even taught in K - it began in 1st. Even the "good" parents were not supplementing outside of doing some bedtime reading.

As for rigor in the curriculum - many of the grade level standards for math, reading, writing, etc. have been pushed downwards even though they are not appropriate (for kids as a whole), and standards have only become more rigorous over time. But that leaves many to fall behind early in elementary school, and there are never opportunities to catch up.

The proliferation of devices at home and in school has been such a disaster.

The old studies about Head Start -comparing results for poor children who got into Head Start vs those who didn't attend preschool - also make me wonder if increasingly "rigorous" preschools are countereffective down the road, since children lose out on so much other developmentally appropriate activity (social skills, motor skills, problem solving, etc.)[/quote]

Are you stating the differentiation never happened in early ES? It absolutely did. One of the problems that proponents against tracking use is equity and also that there is no transparency. All schools run things a bit different, within a system, within a state, and state compared to other states. 
Our current school has moved to having teachers only teach 1 subject starting in 3rd grade and the kids move between the teachers. Is that county approved? Have no idea because I was just informed about it. Do they have testing that shows it improved outcomes? Are kids also grouped by tracking scores to ensure that if a teacher is only teaching math to one group that are reasonably on the same level? Do test scores have more weight or do previous teachers get a say in where your kid goes next? 
I think part of the reason we all have such different experiences is because there is a lot of teacher and administrative autonomy which is great because you want to be able to modulate your environment to the group of kids you have. But it doesnt seem like students are given the same benefits to being in classrooms modulated to where they are and I think it causes a lot of boredom (not the good kind). [/quote]

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