REMARKS
Council Member Stevens raises concerns about the 'one size fits all' model in Summer Rising
1:19:36
·
84 sec
Council Member Althea V. Stevens discusses concerns about the Summer Rising program's 'one size fits all' model, citing a survey conducted by UNH. She highlights issues with accommodating students of different academic levels in the same classroom, including gifted students and those needing additional support.
- Stevens mentions a parent who pulled their gifted child out of the program due to lack of differentiated instruction.
- She emphasizes the need to address this issue, stating that the current approach is not beneficial for students at different academic levels.
- Stevens questions why the program doesn't follow the same differentiated approach used during the regular school year.
Althea V. Stevens
1:19:36
And I just jumped in really quickly.
1:19:38
There was a survey done by UNH.
1:19:39
And one of the things that the parents highlight was the one size fits all model just even around this and just one of the parents was concerned because their daughter was in a talented gifted program, and they were in a classroom with general aid and specialist, a special specialized students.
1:19:56
And they had major concerns about, like, how the teacher was not able to differentiate what the students needed and the academic supports.
1:20:05
And so this to me is just like a highlight of like, yes.
1:20:08
In theory, it sounds okay, but that just is a lot because you have students at such different levels They said that they ended up pulling her out because it just that just was not something that they felt was, like, was beneficial.
1:20:21
And so, again, I think that, like, this is an area that has to be addressed, and we can't just, like, keep saying like, well, you know, this is this is a issue.
1:20:28
Right?
1:20:28
If you have a student who is talented gifted, because we can't forget about them.
1:20:32
They're part of the program too.
1:20:33
Right?
1:20:34
And then we have a student who who needs additional support.
1:20:37
And, yes, you can put a power in there, but they're still not gonna get the the support that they need.
1:20:41
We don't do that during the school year, so then why would we do this in in during the the regular year?
1:20:46
But I thought I wanted I just wanted to highlight that because I was just looking at some of the data from the survey, and that was one of the things I was glaring around parents and their feedback that they did with over, like, 700 young people and parents across the city.
