is there enough being done to differentiate for those children and are there enough peers to make that viable?
I was just thinking about that this morning - if a school was willing and able to provide 5th grade educational materials to a 1st grade child alone in the corner of the 1st grade room while all the other children were working together and being taught by the teacher, would you really want that? What's the metamessage?
Learning 1-1 with a tutor has it's advantages - one can run through the material at the right pace but if you had a choice, wouldn't you rather the child was with other kids of similar readiness to learn and get the experience of interacting with the other kids while they learned, and the mix of trying one one's own, and working together?
I don't judge anyone's solutions as long as they are working for that family. It's likely that we'll need a combination of 'all of the above' over the long term.
Love and More Love,
Grinity
