Class Assignments

With the most exciting (and critical) piece of the new school in place (the staff), we’re a step closer to our opening. Now is still too early to be too concerned about class assignments for next year (we’ll have registration in April and class lists posted on the website the first week of August), but I want to help everyone understand the procedure we will try to accomplish to put together fair, equitable, and compatible classes. Using all the data we have access to, we’ll do the following:

• Divide students in a fair and equitable way (boys/girls, academic ability, behavior, language needs, etc.)
• Put students together who need to be together.
• Split up students who shouldn’t be together.
• Try to put students with a teacher who would be the best fit for each class.

Parent requests make meeting these goals difficult, if not impossible. In future years, we will also be able to draw upon teacher assessments to create the equitable class groupings. As you can imagine, teachers have a unique perspective on the students as the only individuals who see them interact with their peers all day, 180 days of the year. Additionally, the professional-learning-community structure we use at Armstrong will help guarantee the curriculum experience in whichever classroom students find themselves.

I sincerely hope parents will trust us to put classes together for next year in the best way possible. It’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly, and we carry it out with the best interest of each child at heart. We have an extraordinary teacher in each classroom, having chosen him or her from multiple days worth of interviews and class observations, and I feel very confident our school-wide structures will provide a guaranteed and viable curriculum in each class.