Well,
Princess Bride quotes are always appropriate.
It often feels like I'm caught unawares in a Monty Python skit when I engages in conversations about "differentiation" with educators.
It's often surreal, and while they are brightly and cheerfully chattering on about the joys of "differentiation" I am left looking for John Cleese's big entrance.
Since "differentiation" often does not happen (and in fairness to teachers, I don't see how I could teach N different lessons to 20 children at the same time), often the only way to get a more advanced curriculum is to skip a grade. Not that many school districts are open to that, either.
Absolutely. The surreal part is that they all seem to fervently believe that it CAN happen. Which is where
Princess Bride quotes become suitable to describe the situation, which is otherwise--
yeah, okay, it
is just
inconceivable. 
