This post is from from my other blog here

...otherwise known as "Parent Volunteers in the Elementary School Hallways".

2nd-grade non-differentiated Math in our particular area continues to demonstrate inexcusable and nonsensical strategy on the part of school administrators. Recent feedback from parent volunteers in 2nd grade reveals:

- a distressing chunk of the class can't tell which number is higher than the other, like "56" vs. "15".
- most of the kids in this category are typically offered remedial assistance by assignment to the Parent volunteers, in the hallways.
- as this is a consistent practice for the same set of kids, Parent Volunteers are essentially teaching the kids (with many variations in approach and outcome)
- when asked about it, representative teachers aren't pleased, either, as it's simply too difficult to teach to the extremely wide variety of levels in the grade, in a single classroom, and relying on the parents (i.e. non-trained) isn't really appropriate (at least in the school).

Teachers want differentiation, interested Parents want differentiation, differentiation worked very well over the past few years....what does it take to quickly correct this mistake and better serve both students and teachers? Why is there not a standardized practice/approach across the County?

Ugh.