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Friday, August 18, 2006
Freshmores
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Have you all heard this term? I heard it for the first time at a training session for “graduation coaches” last week. You see, high schools tend to have freshman classes that are much larger than sophomore, junior and senior classes as well as eighth-grade classes at the feeder middle school. What gives?
Well, ninth-graders who have been struggling since elementary school often cannot earn enough credits to make it to sophomore status. They are “held back” and known among teachers as freshmores.
High school teachers, do you teach freshmores? Should they be given intensive remediation separate from real freshman? Or is it time for them to make it in a regular class or get off the graduation path?
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