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Primary school principals warn the government's new year-by-year curriculum faces a huge obstacle - the fact that most schools have classes with children from multiple year groups.
They said the new curricululm insists on teaching particular content to particular year groups in strict sequence - which will make teaching multi-level classes extremely difficult, if not impossible.
They said most schools, especially small rural schools, have such classes because they are the only way to cope with the varying number of children in each year group.
The Education Ministry said it was developing adv
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