Posted on 03/29/2009 5:59:20 AM PDT by aberaussie
Starting this August, elementary and middle-school students in one school district in Westminster, Colo., won't be assigned to grade levels based on age. Instead, they'll fall into multi-age levels based on what they already know and will move up only as they master new material.
The concept makes sense to many education experts because it matches how kids actually learn: One student needs three hours to figure out fractions while another takes a full day.
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I think the intent here is more like “and then they shall all be equally stupid.” Removing achievement, by grades and class levels, subtly removes incentive.
If done right ( a huge qualifier) this is actually a far better way to teach then the one-size-fits-all way that they are doing it now.
You're definitely on to something here. There's an ulterior motive in there somewhere. What you suggest is part of it for sure.
That, and they can isolate the trouble makers from the motivated. In this way, they can reinvent some claim of success as waves of academic achievement improve with each graduating class. The problem, of course, is the pool of aging problems that need ‘special education’ and who don’t seem to be able to progress. This, in turn, will call for massive new spending programs while not impinging on the better prepared student’s progress. Eventually, the ‘challenged’ students will drop out since memebership in the elementary class at age 16 will become something of a social liability - problem solved.
The kids will still know. You can’t trick kids. They’ll know who is left back and who is advanced.
This is as dumb as not keeping score at kids’ soccer games. The kids always keep score.
Communists have done this exact thing throughout the 20th century.
Achievement is positive feedback to learning, either by actual grades, or by recognizing advancement to the next grade.
When we homeschooled that’s how we did it, too.
We used Saxon math and did math year round. The first 30 or so lessons in Saxon are review, so when we’d start a new Saxon book, we’d take the tests, not do the lessons, up to the point where questions were missed on a test. That’s how we determined where/when to start the lessons in that particular level.
...anything to make it harder to measure whether the kids are actually learning anything.
The older slow-learners will be explaining sex, cursing and violence to the first graders at grade level. Peachy. Just what we need.
Socialists don’t do anything without a reason.
While we do homeschool, and our children do learn at their own pace, the goal is different in their case.
In France, for instance, they know which children are moving ahead at an early age, and which ones are falling behind. It helps them categorize people into those that will eventually go to college, and those that won’t.
They know which ones “get” things immediately, which ones take 2x to burn something in, and those that take 5x to get something to burn in.
The tests merely prove their point.
Because the STATE takes care of education through college, you can forget about being a late bloomer — if you don’t show what they are looking for you will be classified for menial labor.
Pity the folks that were late bloomers.
Welcome to Obamaland.
Yup. It removes incentive. Dumb ‘em all down.
Good point.
It wasn’t that long ago the States were taking Great Pride in eliminating “One Room Schools” and putting all children in true Grade Schools.
Just how are these Multi-age class rooms, In multi-room structures, better? Being bused to a distant structure doesn’t strike me as necessary to Childhood.
Does anyone else smell a Bill Ayers in this pot of education crap? It sure stinks like it has one of these turds floating in the soup.
This is our exact reason for homeschooling. When I told the teacher and principal that my first grade son was doing long division and reading fifth grade books I was IGNORED!
I simply could not stand to see my child's life wasted. As the ad says, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste!”
damn sounds like 5th grade forever.....
the dumb have just got dumber....
Dumbing down the masses. What number is that on the Communist check list?
Same with rights and responsibilities, rights and responsibilities interchange, you remove a person's responsibilities, they will then be left with no rights. This is the leftards master plan in one sentence.
I do understand what you say and agree.
What is Saxon Math?
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