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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a fun thread! Guess what? I went to ES in the 80s and we had a non-diverse population too OP. We had a little bit of tracking. We also didn’t have car seats, were latchkey kids, played with lawn darts, and expected a light bulb to cook dough rendering it safe enough to eat.

Things change. Society progresses. Or not, as the case may be. There are lots or arguments to be had for or against differentiation; because it worked in a school somewhere in NE for someone once in the 90s is amongst the least compelling though.[/quote]
I'm the PP who posted about my New England school, but not OP. I didn't mean that differentiation is undesirable. On the contrary, I think it is ideal.

But it seems extremely challenging to provide much differentiation with the resources and ratios that are typical in a public school classroom. I am sure my old public school would have loved to offer more differentiation if they had more money, staff, and space.

I think it would not take much in additional resources to allow more precocious kids to move ahead if they are able to learn mostly independently and they rely on the teacher only for providing materials (textbook, assignments) and administering exams. So maybe that could be a lower hanging fruit to shoot for.[/quote]

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