KMAN refines my point (Thanks!):
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What is really happening is that the Grade 6 class is designed to
deliver a
curriculum to advance the Grade 6 students to Grade 7. This means that
if
you have people working at a Grade 1 level, they are being denied an
appropriate curriculum, and any efforts to provide them an appropriate
curriculum will in turn deny the Grade 6 students what they need.

What it all boils down to is everyone should have a curriculum that
meets
their needs.
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You are right: "a learning environment is for learners (all of them). "

We've opted for -- for a myriad of reasons -- a rather "industrial"
model of education (most jurisdictions) for reasons of efficiency.
Constant assaults on the funding of education just exacerbate the need
for further efficiencies. The notion of "individualized" instruction
takes a beating when classroom sizes escalate from about 22 per class
to 35 per class in less than 10 years. It *is* possible to teach 35 (or
more) pupils in a classroom, but the students had better be relatively
homogeneous if that's your objective. That pretty-much rules out
mainstreaming.

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