From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-09-08T01:47:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Nuby forum

Hi --

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Kirk Haines wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:17:32 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote
> 
> > Food for thought:  Why don't we school 12th graders in the same room 
> > at the same time as 1st graders?
> 
> Because when one has a full classroom of student and a single teacher, the 
> teacher can not deliver content appropriate to the whole range of students 
> in the alotted time.
> 
> It's not analagous to ruby-talk, though.
> 
> Ruby-talk is n classrooms with n1 teachers and n2 students, where n1 is 
> approximately equal to n2.  And these classrooms are self-segregating so 
> that the 12th graders don't need to participate in the classes on spelling 3 
> letter words and counting unless they, perhaps, feel like helping to be one 
> of the teachers, while the 1st graders can stay out of the calculus classes, 
> unless the 1st grader is precocious and interested in calculus.

And 12th graders sometimes realize they were absent on a really
important day back in 3rd grade and have to make up for it.  And
everyone's a student, and almost everyone is a teacher.  And some of
the students are twice or more the age of some of the teachers, who
are also students, and who are in some cases good friends or
professional colleagues of the teachers, or was that the students...?
:-)


David

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David A. Black
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