Class Assignments

Although it is still too early to be too concerned about class assignments for next year, I do want to help everyone understand the process we use to put together fair, equitable, and compatible classes. Toward the end of the year, I ask teachers to work in grade-level teams and put together class lists for the upcoming year. I ask teachers to:

• 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.

As you can imagine, parent requests make meeting these goals difficult, if not impossible. Our teachers have a unique perspective as the only individuals who see the students interact with their peers all day, 180 days of the year. Additionally, the professional-learning-community structure we use at Armstrong helps 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, and I feel very confident our school-wide structures will provide a guaranteed and viable curriculum in each class.