whom has multiple exceptionalities, including a cognitive processing issue, who struggles to read above a 6th grade level, and for whom has been in the last 2 years of college for 8 years. Professor after professor passed him on through the courses...until, I didn't. He failed my class, took it again with another professor and passed. He got an incomplete in another class with me (because I felt bad for him and trusted his pleas for extended time), for which nothing materialized. As of May, it has been one year. Another professor came to me explaining that "all he wants is to graduate..." and that he, "understands he won't be a teacher, he just wants the degree" and implied that he deserved to because of his extended tenure with us. So, my question to you all out there is, "Does differentiation of instruction inevitably lead to lowered expectations?" I know it shouldn't, I have modified his assignments and tests to oral renditions and extended time (for example), but he still does not have the words, the knowledge. So, where does differentiation end and ultimately, is school really to insure "all students succeed?"
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