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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the EA parent who keeps complaining about multiple reading levels doesn't seem to understand is that this is what ES is like in MCPS in a school with a population like RCF's.  It has nothing to do with SI.   MCPS won't acknowledge that it's really impossible to adequately differentiate in reading and language arts within one class if there are students who diverge more than a grade level or so.

It's not like -- if there were no SI -- RCF would group kids into classes according to ability level.  That's tracking, and MCPS is adamantly against it.

Interestingly, MCPS isn't against this in math, which is why they allow kids to jump around from class to class.  So for example, kids in 4th grade at RCF have three levels of math they can be assigned to -- and these are whole-class levels.  Within those levels there's variation of ability and grasp of the concepts, of course, but everyone's pretty much on the same page.

Now the truth is, RCF is a Silver Spring school, in many respects.  I don't think that's so bad -- our local Silver Spring school has a great reputation and lots of devoted parents.  But it's a different experience than what RCF parents might have been expecting.  They should have done more research or thought more critically about why their Chevy Chase houses are $150K - 300K less than those further west in the cluster for the same house.  It's due to the proximity of apartments and lower-income residents and other demographic factors -- it has nothing to do with SI.[/quote]

Thank you for this clear statement.  SI is being blamed for problems that may or may not actually exist, but none of which would be solved by excluding a handful of students from Westland.  At most this would impact 10 to 15 students per grade.  This is not going to make any difference to overcrowding at Westland, particularly when compared to the hardship it would cause to children and families who now consider themselves part of the community even though they are from less fortunate parts of the county.  [/quote]

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