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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  It depended on what group your child was placed in.  Agree - count yourself lucky.[/quote]

Please stop repeating this myth over and over. Kids were in separate spelling groups according to ability based on a spelling test, yes.  But the reading  groups were up to the kids - they choose what books to read from several choices. And those group were constantly changing based on what book the kid chose. There were not two separate groups - unless you are saying the teacher had a group of favorites, but they were not assigned different work - except for levels of spelling words. Or when the kids got to choose which type of project to do - or how involved to get in the project. At least we never saw that in the two years we experienced with the 4th grade teacher with two different kids. [/quote]

Yes, you are correct. This poster is stretching the truth or is delusional. Both my kids had her. Sure, she was tough but not anything like what they're describing.[/quote]

Two groups in the same class.  One group had "Thursday" and "apple" on their spelling exam when the other group had "tetrarchy" but were graded on the same grading rubric?

But if you were someone who signed off on the paperwork or a parent who's kid benefitted from that, I can see why you would try to defend it?[/quote]

My kid was in the lowest level spelling group, but in his year they never had words like Thursday or Apple. They were more challenging than that, but not super tough like the highest group. He was not given easier words because he was a “favorite”. but because he just wasn’t a strong speller. As for using the same rubric for all spelling groups, do you think he should have gotten Cs because his words were easier? Or should there have only been one spelling group?  And all the kids could choose their own books and projects when there was a choice.[/quote]

I went back and re-read the original complaint.  It was so awful, I can't believe this was done to a child.

On the spelling words, it was already provided in writing.  The sheets used for the spelling tests were provided as evidence.  Same went for the books that were "choice".  When the only two books "permitted" by the teacher were so difficult that they had no Lexile rating, and listed as "appropriate" for 8th grade GT (in 4th Grade), while other children were free to choose books under 1300 Lexile, but assignments were graded on the same grading rubric?   When a teacher erases the child's choice of different assignments then writes in herself "how game theory affects our lives"?

Ever hear of the "literary tests" given to Blacks to prevent them from voting?  How is this different? 
https://americanhistory.si.edu/democracy-exhibition/vote-voice/keeping-vote/state-rules-federal-rules/literacy-tests

The answer is it's not.[/quote]

This doesn’t sound familiar to me. But I do recall assignment questions that were both vague and advanced and also abstract that I struggled to understand what they could possibly be asking my child to write about. Given that I, with a PhD, couldn’t fully understand the point of the questions, it did seem to perhaps be aimed a little higher at times than a “gifted” 9 year old. The teacher just didn’t get it when asked what the point was. [/quote]

The CES curriculum is set by the Central Office. They use the same projects and assignments at all CES schools.[/quote]

Yeah that’s what she said but the 5th grade curriculum wasn’t even remotely similar and that too was surely set by Central office. Or she just created her own assignments, rubrics and questions, and added to what central office provided in ways that weren’t helpful.[/quote]

Had a child go through the center at Pince Crest a few years earlier then one when they opened the local center at PBES. The program was the same. You may really want to take the PP's advice and just let it go.[/quote]

Not true. Program in 4th grade at Piney branch was much more intense and voluminous than any other CES location. No other CES has that level of homework. Nor did PBES in 5th. [/quote]

Seemed the same when my kids went through it. Are you sure you didn't forget to take your meds today?[/quote]

You know you are responding to multiple people, don’t you? You know that an entire class of parents complained about this? [/quote]

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