ext_242367 ([identity profile] mysirensong.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] velvetpage 2006-08-17 09:16 pm (UTC)

You're in Wake County, too?? How cool. :)

I'm trying to think of how to explain it. Let's say you have 30 desks in your classroom, but you have 40 kids you need to teach. You put them on "tracks" so that at any given time you only have 30 kids in your class, but you rotate them out. So, at one point you'll have groups A B & C there while D is at home, then group A goes home, D comes in - so you had B C D. Then B goes home, A comes back in so you have A C and D, and so on. You're teaching the same number of students, using the same number of resources (desks) but using "time" to your advantage so that you can fit everyone in.

Obviously, you don't have kids in the same *class* rotating tracks like that - because that would be a nightmare to teach, wouldn't it? - but the school does this basic concept with classrooms, books, equipment, etc.

And then, obviously the only way to make sure that the required 180 days (or whatever it is now) are being met is to extend the year since every 9 weeks or so you have a three week break.

Does that make sense?

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