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> The best school system I ever attended rigorously divided classes between social and academic This is such a great idea! And it sounds like it works well in
by bradrn 2y ago
> The best school system I ever attended rigorously divided classes between social and academic
This is such a great idea! And it sounds like it works well in practise, too. I’ve often pondered the idea of separating classes by ability rather than age, and this is a really practical method of achieving it.
- WillAdams 2y agoIt worked quite well --- helped that it was a small, cohesive school system with all grades in the same building/complex. A similar idea is to group children by reading level which makes classes function more smoothly since students finish reading assignments in similar periods of time.
- smeej 2y agoIronically I think a version of this had to happen in the one-room schoolhouses of yore. If you're the only teacher, you can't afford to split everyone by age. You kind of have to roll people into whatever lessons they can handle and do your best. It was "innovative," in a way I think we're coming to regret, to suggest that all 8-year-olds (for example) must be at the same level across every subject, and none of them should ever be taught alongside a group of mostly 6- or 10-year-olds.