Your wife teaches in a one-room schoolhouse? If not, then your wife's experience doesn't say anything about how well the Little House/Christmas Story model wor

Your wife teaches in a one-room schoolhouse? If not, then your wife's experience doesn't say anything about how well the Little House/Christmas Story model works. Indeed, I would go so far as to suspect that this is likely a failure of the "integrate kids no matter what, and force them to learn at the exact same pace, no matter what" style of schooling that has become so ubiquitous in modern society.