Nov 2

Today I started thinking about all the new students who had been added to our class since the beginning of the term. When you get a new student you often worry about behavior, but not these. I've been wondering how they could have been in their classes all the time and nobody realize they couldn't read well, that they really belonged in the lower level. I think the answer is behavior; this is a huge gap in our field. Students who behave well in class tend to fly under the radar more easily, in that nobody notices they're not achieving or can't read. The ones we notice first are the ones who can't behave, and so that's how they managed to stay in their classes for a month or two.