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- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Path: sparky!uunet!lotus!news
- From: phil@lotatg.lotus.com (Phil Ritari)
- Subject: Re: Branding kids, IQ tests, smart vs dumb (Was: Re: Seminar Program)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.183532.22267@lotus.com>
- Sender: news@lotus.com
- Organization: Lotus Development Corp.
- References: <2689@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 18:35:32 GMT
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- In article <2689@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM> chenowet@rd1632.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve
- Chenoweth) writes:
- > As other authors in these groups have pointed out, the situation remains
- > unresolved for exceptionally fast learners in our school systems. When you
- > have a child like some of those who've been mentioned, reading at 2 yrs.,
- etc.,
- > and you show up four years later at their first grade classroom and see 30
- > kids with a teacher saying, "This is a b" to them, suddenly you know
- > how it's all going to go. No amount of theory about virtues of mainstreaming
- > can resolve that feeling in the pit of your stomach. Those of us who have
- > been through this tend to be less in favor of mainstreaming than we used to
- be.
-
-
- I have occasionally boasted in this forum about some of the advantages my son's
- school structure offers, and here is another example. He attends a private K-8
- school (The Phoenix School in Salem MA) which has about 50 students and 3 main
- teachers (5 or so part time specialists). The school is essentially a one-room
- school, with mixed age groupings for most activities. This means activities can
- be grouped by ability and a first grader can be in with third fourth and fifth
- graders and it's a perfectly natural arrangement. The kids expect to be in
- mixed age groups, so there's not a stigma attached to it and everyone can
- progress at a rate that suits their abilities.
-