a school with flexible ability based grouping now, and it is worth every bit of the hardship to make it work. For our children the solution covers multiple grades
This is what my DD's school was supposed to be like but once the administration was hired they turned into just grouping within classrooms for reading, and within a grade for math.
How do they do the grouping across grades and keep it flexible?
It's a selective school, plus they have vertically grouped classes, plus the whole school does the same subject at the same time, plus they have very small classes, plus the curriculum is adaptive, plus they're really open to shifting kids around if it turns out they're too challenged or not challenged enough. But I think the biggest factors are being selective and vertical grouping. So many problems are solved just with those two factors.
