Putting all the kids of a certain age together and teaching them all the same won’t work. Plain mix-streaming with status-quo curricula is an idea born from penny-pinching education departments pretending to do it for “equity”. We need more comprehensive ideas with more nuance and complexity to achieve equity for children while letting each individual child succeed to the best of their potential.
The education system should be tailored to be able to challenge each kid at their ability level. If that means that a few grade 1 kids should be given grade 3 assignments, and some grade 1 kids should be given kindergarten assignments, it would be better.
As an analogy: Does it make sense to have swimming or skating lessons always at the same pace for everyone? They should offer it equitably, but not unnecessarily slow down or speed up kids on their progression to fit a one-size-fits-all model.
Putting all the kids of a certain age together and teaching them all the same won’t work. Plain mix-streaming with status-quo curricula is an idea born from penny-pinching education departments pretending to do it for “equity”. We need more comprehensive ideas with more nuance and complexity to achieve equity for children while letting each individual child succeed to the best of their potential.
The education system should be tailored to be able to challenge each kid at their ability level. If that means that a few grade 1 kids should be given grade 3 assignments, and some grade 1 kids should be given kindergarten assignments, it would be better.
As an analogy: Does it make sense to have swimming or skating lessons always at the same pace for everyone? They should offer it equitably, but not unnecessarily slow down or speed up kids on their progression to fit a one-size-fits-all model.