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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Within the class.[/quote]

^^  Yeah, so the teacher spends her/his time tending to those with behavioral issues and cannot focus on the majority, and there's no special assistant to tend to the behavior problems and otherwise keep order.  No thanks.[/quote]

This is the attitude that makes me nuts. (Not to pick on you, specifically, but I see it a lot on these boards, and your post is a perfect example.) Without any idea whether or not a specific teacher/school can effectively manage differentiation and discipline, you've decided, as a given, that the one and only effective way to handle advanced learners is by segregating them from other students.

If you see that an actual teacher/school is failing to meet the needs of the actual advanced learners attending it, that's one thing. But to judge a school as failing because its approach differs from your own -- without even looking at what results they achieve -- doesn't make sense. It's based on ideology rather than evidence.

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Watkins parent here. Differentiation for my advanced reader meant that DC could pick up a book at any time in class and read instead of being bored to tears by the material that was being taught and retaught in between behavior outbursts in class.  One week, DC got through two Harry Potter books without using lunch, recess, specials or any time at home. That's when I knew that differentiation was NOT doing anything for my student.[/quote]

That's a legit criticism -- obviously the way that teacher implemented differentiation wasn't working for your child. That doesn't mean differentiation in principle is garbage, nor does it mean pull-outs are the only acceptable solution.[/quote]

Actually, I would say that is not differentiation at all. That teacher is ignoring your child and/or your child is not doing the classwork and getting away with it. Time for a parent/teacher conference.[/quote]

Stop blaming the teacher. Blame the system. The Watkins parent here mentioned that the teacher was dealing with behavior outbursts. So it is not that they are not differentiating as much as they are not being supported with behavior issues. And there is crap like FUNDATIONS- that we teachers are MANDATED to teach. Its a phonics program- and as a 2nd Grade teacher (with an entire class reading about grade level) I am ordered to teach the phonic lesson 30 minutes a day. Even though none of my kiddos need it.
   Teachers are tired of this junk too. Instead of fighting them as not being good at their jobs- join forces with them in demanding more from the school admin.[/quote]

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