Winnipeg Construction IX

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I'd wager that the biggest issue that you'd see in an inner city elementary school is wildly uneven skills and capabilities that teachers have to manage. Unlike suburban areas where you can probably safely assume that most kids will have been exposed to English and parents have taken the initiative to teach basic things, you'll see kids who may be recent arrivals to Canada or who come from backgrounds where parents didn't really emphasize education. That means some students end up taking a disproportionate amount of time as they master the basics.

But apart from that, kids at that age generally aren't all that different. Certainly the differences become more pronounced as they get into the junior high/high school ages.