SK> Seems to me that, just as students shouldn't leave third grade without
 SK> knowing how to read, and call in the RR teacher and other intervention
 SK> methods, kids shouldn't leave second grade without knowing their basic
 SK> addition and subtraction facts nor third without 
 SK> knowing multiplication.
 SK> Get intervention for these kids, what... a Math Facts Recovery
 SK> teacher?...and get them set up for success in math in fourth and fifth
 SK> grade instead of re-hashing basic material they should have already
 SK> learned.
Can't we have instruction that keeps students from being put on rework?
Dan already knows which kids are having trouble, shouldn't intervention begin 
there, (in Kinder).
 SK> think that to allow the kids longer than that does them a terrible
 SK> disservice and sets them up to do poorly in subsequent classes.
It sets them up for failure, maybe that was ok for the industrial age where 
they could go do manual labor and earn a living. But now?
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