Split Classes - What's Your Experience?
From reader Seeking Feedback: I'd love to see a thread sometime on split classes (2 or more grades in one classroom) in elementary school. What are parents opinions? Do they work? Are they better, and if so what are the advantages? Or- is the teacher having to cover too much ground and are kids missing some content? With the capacity crunch and the SEA contract on overages, it seems that SPS is putting more pressure on schools to have split classrooms, and I wonder if it's working. (There are some answers already at the Friday Open Thread. Thanks to those readers for jumping right in.)