Ahhh-- you beat me to it! I was just coming to post this.

I'm flabbergasted at some of the comments which indicate that such a practice is "wrong" or "harmful," however...

and deeply saddened by the remarks from educators which indicate a mindset which entirely fails to even contemplate what to do with children who are either unable to learn at the pace of the other 25-30 children in a classroom... or have no need to "learn" anything being taught in that room to begin with, since they already know it.

The teacher who indicated that failing to 'group' for instruction was effectively failing to teach 2/3rd of the class in their proximal zone was absolutely accurate.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.