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Your letters: Set students up for
success
Tues., Jan. 30, 2018
To combine students in one stream fails to recognize that if the weaker students are to
have success, the course will have to be modified and reduced in skills and content. To
do otherwise, and offer the courses as ornally developed, will put weaker and less -able
students into situations for which they are not prepared and this will lead to frustration
and failure.
This is why streaming was introduced in the first place; in order to offer courses at the
level at which students were canable of success. To 1 �iffer eaual ojoDortu ities to achieve
Many students have skills which are not academic in nature, but are well suited to
applied sciences. Directing students to the right programs without assuming that all
students should go to post -secondary education at colleges and universities can result in
successful mechanics, plumbers and electrans, just to mention a few; each, a fine
Integrating special education students into regular classes without additional supports
saves money, but does not guarantee success. Where integration has been successful has
been when students from special education classes are integrated into subjects where
they have the skills and ability to be successful. This does not mean total integration.
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Your letters: Set students up for success I Toronto Star
It is essential to consider the needs of all students and to recognize that these needs are
different.
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