Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 23:19     Subject: Tracking in DCPS
Anonymous wrote:I can't fathom how differentiated education could ever possibly work. In DC, you will likely have for example 10-year-old 5th graders who range in capabilities from reading at a high school level to kids who can barely read at all. And in this idea of "differentiation", the teacher is expected to challenge, stimulate and keep ALL the kids going. The kids reading at a high school level will already be bored out of their skulls, daydreaming, and potentially acting out and getting in trouble, the barely literate ones will be struggling to keep up and likewise will probably be acting out in frustration, and given their need to keep up, the classroom will gravitate to the lowest common denominator, and you then lose the interest and attention of the kids who actually are at a 5th grade level. I cannot imagine any viable way for any teacher to actually spin all those plates and make it all work. I see "differentiation" as little more than politics and economics, a way to consolidate and put more on teachers in some idea of saving money, as opposed to actually being a viable educational approach.




In other words, you're like the kid who can't be fooled, and is the first to point out that the Emperor has no clothes.

Sometimes being right is intellectually painful.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 20:23     Subject: Tracking in DCPS
I can't fathom how differentiated education could ever possibly work. In DC, you will likely have for example 10-year-old 5th graders who range in capabilities from reading at a high school level to kids who can barely read at all. And in this idea of "differentiation", the teacher is expected to challenge, stimulate and keep ALL the kids going. The kids reading at a high school level will already be bored out of their skulls, daydreaming, and potentially acting out and getting in trouble, the barely literate ones will be struggling to keep up and likewise will probably be acting out in frustration, and given their need to keep up, the classroom will gravitate to the lowest common denominator, and you then lose the interest and attention of the kids who actually are at a 5th grade level. I cannot imagine any viable way for any teacher to actually spin all those plates and make it all work. I see "differentiation" as little more than politics and economics, a way to consolidate and put more on teachers in some idea of saving money, as opposed to actually being a viable educational approach.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 19:18     Subject: Tracking in DCPS
I have a child in montessori, and I supplement at home. I am teaching DC how to read and basic number sense. I realize that in early childhood education it may be easier to fill in where the school leave voids, but we do what we have to do as parents. I personally will be seeking more from DC's school as he gets older. I think what I like most about montessori is the school culture that many schools lack and is ultimately their downfall. I wouldn't say that Montessori is the end-all be-all, but it is doing something right.

But on the subject of tracking, I hope that as my son gets into upper elementary that his school will offer tracking wherever that may be.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 18:46     Subject: Tracking in DCPS
Ummmm.....I have seen the kids who graduate from Montessori. Often huge gaps in their skills and remediation necessary.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 17:22     Subject: Re:Tracking in DCPS
Montessori does all of this. Teaches kids in mixed classrooms at different levels. I'm still not sure why the more traditional public schools can't do this as well.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 15:48     Subject: Tracking in DCPS
Time out for both of you! Come back when you can be civil.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 15:00     Subject: Re:Tracking in DCPS
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So, because of racism in the late 50s/early 60s, advanced students in DC today are screwed over because it would be politically incorrect to educate them at their level? Children whose parents weren't even alive for Brown v. Board of Education are supposed to be sacrificial lambs?

Would someone please remind me why middle/upper-middle class families exit the District after a certain public school threshold? They must be racist bastards!! Only a KKKlansman could possibly want the best possible education for their child, after all. RACISTS!!


Do you really imagine that the only things that are real are the things that you were alive for? What sort of standard is that? Perhaps the only women who should vote are those who were alive when the 19th amendment was passed. You're a moron, apparently.


^^If only we could be assured that morons would not be allowed to vote...


Only a moron would support G&T classrooms or magnet schools?

It looked like sarcasm to me. But, if you were unable to perceive it, or you were but found it moronic, then you're doing a great job of demonstrating the public education brain drain in DC. It's you and your children that some of us want to escape.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 14:43     Subject: Re:Tracking in DCPS
Anonymous wrote:
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So, because of racism in the late 50s/early 60s, advanced students in DC today are screwed over because it would be politically incorrect to educate them at their level? Children whose parents weren't even alive for Brown v. Board of Education are supposed to be sacrificial lambs?

Would someone please remind me why middle/upper-middle class families exit the District after a certain public school threshold? They must be racist bastards!! Only a KKKlansman could possibly want the best possible education for their child, after all. RACISTS!!


Do you really imagine that the only things that are real are the things that you were alive for? What sort of standard is that? Perhaps the only women who should vote are those who were alive when the 19th amendment was passed. You're a moron, apparently.


^^If only we could be assured that morons would not be allowed to vote...
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 14:42     Subject: Re:Tracking in DCPS
Anonymous wrote:
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So, because of racism in the late 50s/early 60s, advanced students in DC today are screwed over because it would be politically incorrect to educate them at their level? Children whose parents weren't even alive for Brown v. Board of Education are supposed to be sacrificial lambs?

Would someone please remind me why middle/upper-middle class families exit the District after a certain public school threshold? They must be racist bastards!! Only a KKKlansman could possibly want the best possible education for their child, after all. RACISTS!!


Do you really imagine that the only things that are real are the things that you were alive for? What sort of standard is that? Perhaps the only women who should vote are those who were alive when the 19th amendment was passed. You're a moron, apparently.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2012 14:36     Subject: Re:Tracking in DCPS
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
So, because of racism in the late 50s/early 60s, advanced students in DC today are screwed over because it would be politically incorrect to educate them at their level? Children whose parents weren't even alive for Brown v. Board of Education are supposed to be sacrificial lambs?

Would someone please remind me why middle/upper-middle class families exit the District after a certain public school threshold? They must be racist bastards!! Only a KKKlansman could possibly want the best possible education for their child, after all. RACISTS!!


Yeah, because if you didn't personally have a hand in creating an inequitable or even murderous situation you should still be allowed to benefit from the unfairness or hatred of others who came before you. Right.