Almost Looping
DECEMBER 11, 2010 PM31 5:05 PM
I hadn’t quite thought about it like this, but I’ve more or less looped with my high school’s current senior class.
Looping is more common in lower grades. By alternating 3rd and 4th grade, a teacher effectively has one class for two years. You need a stable school for that – where a quarter or more of the staff turns over each year, it just doesn’t make sense. My friend almost moved to a 7/8 alternating loop in math in his suburban school a few years ago.
But in high school? Maybe in some mini-schools. But modern Bronx mini-schools are turnover factories, where teachers get permanently slotted into upper-level classes, so no, not at all common. And in big high schools? Could you really pull together the same students for the same