As part of the AEI (Accelerated and Enriched Instruction) team presentation to the Board of Education on September 8, Kay Williams screened a video ostensibly demonstrating differentiated instruction. Which elicited this response from a parent:
I am going to LOSE my mind. The differentiation video (http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/development/resources/Differentiation%20Principles/player.html) is the SAME video I saw in an MCPS / MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee presentation of Differentiated Instruction about 2 years. This particular video is of a Title I Kindergarten classroom, consisting of THIRTEEN children. Yes, 13! Not the @ 22 in my school!
And the second video I saw as part of that presentation was of a homogeneous GT English class. Following a presentation for middle school reform that, in writing, recommended heterogeneous class structures.
Ah… the devil in the details.
Indeed.
So should we not watch it? To, you know, save ourselves from acid reflux?
Do they really think we’re that stupid? That no one would notice?
I mean, is it just me? We’re talking about parents of GIFTED kids, here, that they are dicking around. Though for the life of me I don’t understand why we can’t crack this nut once and for all.
Oh wait, I remember. We don’t trust them not to take it out on our kids. We even have a poster child for that now.
Shameful. Arrogant. Unsurprising.