Commentary
If there’s one thing that most parents and teachers agree about, it’s that split classes, where students from two or more grades are combined in one class, are a bad idea.
It’s not hard to see why parents dislike split classes. It strains credulity to think that children will get the same individualized attention in a split-grade class as they would receive in a single-grade class. Teachers don’t like split grades because of the extra workload that comes with teaching them. It’s much more difficult to create lesson plans from two curriculum guides than to focus on one curriculum for a single grade of students….