anyone know what i'm talking about...i remember when i was in kindegarden most of us went up to 1st grade but a few went to a ta class that was like kindegarden AND first grade mixed...whats that all about?

10/9/2007 2:19:55 PM

they probably just had extra help for you special kids

10/9/2007 2:21:20 PM

retard

10/9/2007 2:21:51 PM

they tried to make me repeat kindergarten

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 2:22 PM. Reason : God's honest truth]

10/9/2007 2:22:01 PM

yep. i was in one of those. in my 2nd grade class there were X number of 2nd graders and X number of first graders. don't remember why we did that though. my cousin teaches that same kind of class in carteret co.

the more i think about it, i think it had to do with kids on a fast track for AG.

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 2:23 PM. Reason : ]

10/9/2007 2:22:16 PM

everybody take out a circle of paper

10/9/2007 2:22:55 PM

they probably just had extra help for you special kids

10/9/2007 2:23:22 PM

So it's just a mixed-grade class? My Montessori school had those, as most do. Grades 1-3 are in one classroom, then 4-6 are in another.

10/9/2007 2:24:14 PM

^i got the impression there were only like 3 people held back and the rest were a new batch of kindengardners...i always wondered how they picked the ones they held back

10/9/2007 2:25:51 PM

I'm guessing they held back the slow ones.

10/9/2007 2:26:27 PM

yeah thats a given, i'm wondering how they judge that etc

10/9/2007 2:28:26 PM

in our class it was ~18 2nd graders and ~10 1st graders, and we weren't held back. if anything the 1st graders were pushed forward.

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 2:32 PM. Reason : ]

10/9/2007 2:31:57 PM

a lot of times they will mix grades in schools. sometimes it is just simply to accommodate
the best number of kids per class.

10/9/2007 2:31:57 PM

Mine was called a "combination class", I think 10 or so of us sat in a second grade class as first graders. I'm guessing at the end of the year we would have had the option to skip 2nd and move on to third, but I don't recall anyone who did (or whose parents made that choice if it was offered).

The end result of this was that I hated 2nd grade because I'd done the majority of the stuff already.

10/9/2007 9:15:06 PM

10/9/2007 9:16:24 PM

Yeah for both my first and second grade classes, I was in the classes of smarter first graders/slower second graders and smarter second graders/slower third graders.

10/9/2007 9:38:12 PM

^
yeah, I've had an intellectual superiority complex since like 1st grade

10/9/2007 9:41:18 PM

Me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

10/9/2007 9:41:49 PM

ive heard the term TK1 or something like that, i could be wrong

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 9:46 PM. Reason : i skipped 2nd grade bitches]

10/9/2007 9:45:49 PM

when i was in florida they called it tk1 but a lot of my nc friends said it was y5
the kids i knew who went were usually the ones who had barely turned 5 by the cutoff when starting school

[Edited on October 9, 2007 at 9:54 PM. Reason : ]

10/9/2007 9:54:04 PM

oh maybe it was tk1 that i was thinking of...i thought it was ta but tk1 might be right

10/10/2007 4:57:02 AM

i've had T&A in school, had TA's in school, but wtf is a "ta"?

10/10/2007 7:33:45 AM

well see, in English, we have two sorts of letters: upper-case and lower-case

t=T
a=A

thus, ta=TA

10/10/2007 10:43:40 AM