->   I've _seen_ 8th-grade classrooms where the reading level varied
-> from
-> second to sixth grade.
->   I'd call "multi-age classrooms" an impossible burden on teachers by
-> the
-> time kids reached age 10.  Some of the kids in the classroom would
-> still be barely able to read and add, while others were doing
-> 8th-grade work.
You completely misunderstand the point. The point of multi-age
classrooms in today's school would be so that there is NOT such a wide
variance in abilities within one classroom.
Sheila
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