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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're missing the point.  It doesn't matter whether the system is bad or the implementation is half-assed.  FCPS has had years of tinkering to fix this.  In the meantime, our flawed AAP model is driving decisions that are affecting students, schools and communities.  If it is not special education for the "gifted" much of the justification for centers goes away.   If FCPS says this is about services, [b]these services can just as easily be delivered at many local schools [/b]where if students would stay in their neighborhoods you would have more than a critical mass.

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Those services simply cannot "just as easily be delivered at many local schools." So-called "differentiation in the classroom" always ends up meaning that teachers are forced to bring the kids who need the most help up to scratch, while the kids who could move faster, do more challenging work, etc., are all too often left to look after themselves -- given more busy work, more worksheets, told to help tutor other kids (true, saw it in our base school) while the teacher's effort had to be spent on, dare I say it, the lowest common denominator. I don't blame the teachers. They can't win where they're expected to do -- as an earlier poster rightly noted -- three different versions of a lesson, in order to "serve" too wide a range of abilities in the same classroom.

Differentiation does not work.[/quote]

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