Rock and a Hard Place
Find a Conversation
Rock and a Hard Place
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
| Thu, 11-20-2003 - 10:45am |
There's something on this board that has been bothering me, and I hope I can articulate it.
Pages
That is not what absolutely clear research says. In fact, the difficulties faced by children in mixed grade rooms are absolutely the reason educators and parents alike, hate mixed grades en mass. A teacher in a mixed grade classroom has no more reason to look at each child individually than does a child in a regular classroom. She simply has (typically) half the time to spend with a particular childs' group. Any research group wishing strongly enough to find a positive correlation between mixed grade classrooms and better academic performance will not have any problem finding it. Because the practice of placing the better academic students into those classes, IS widespread, in spite of what my particular school does.
<>
You just don't want the responsibility. You want no information more detailed than school level. You are happy to have schools compared that the teachers and administration may improve and adjust how they educate their students. But thats as far as you are willing to go.
Hey - what are you doing with my children???
Mine were pretty much exactly the same. DD couldn't wait to read and although I read to her regularly, she pretty much figured it out on her own.
SUS
Pages