<p>I do not believe that this pedagogical approach is at all feasible. </p>
<p>The splitting of students into the different levels has been tried through both teacher recommendations as well as testing, and the school district always ends up in court.</p>
<p>The focus on art and music is noble, however in today’s underfunded school systems who is going to pay for this? In addition how are teachers going to focus on these things when curriculum is being pushed down to lower levels?</p>
<p>The idea of an inverted classroom as the OP discussed where students watch lecture at home and then go to class to work on homework and discuss has been tried many times before, Dallas ISD began using this approach in 1971, and it is useful… until the administration decides to save money by firing the teachers and instituting aides for the homework and discussion. It has happened in many districts across the country and every time the administration comes up with the idea that inverted classrooms do not work, however almost always aides have replaced teachers in these classrooms.</p>
<p>As a final criticism I think that the push of foreign language is unneeded, my parents have a gardener that speaks Portuguese, French, and Spanish fluently, however he is not well paid. Truthfully it will be an uphill battle to convince most educators that foreign language is at all useful. Sure it may help you on that summer pub crawl through Western Europe, but what does it truly benefit the student?</p>
<p>In all I think it is wonderful to question education and to be a champion for reform, however most of our schools seem to be lagging behind in the sciences, math, english, and vocational departments. These might be areas to focus on first… that and the lack of any motivation from today’s students.</p>