one room school house?

[csgray]

I have always taught in full inclusion secondary classrooms, middle school right now, with students who range from 2nd grade to college reading levels in both my 7th and 8th grade classes, so I am already very experienced with individualized instruction. In middle school, the skills the students learn are almost as important as the content, so I was thinking of doing a 2 year looped curriculum for social studies/humanities and science, and individualized skill based instruction in writing and math. Literary analysis is probably my weakest area, and improving reading, writing, and research for informative purposes is probably my strongest in language arts. My focus would be on integrating the curriculum across all the disciplines so skills and information are constantly reinforced.

I've also been a small business person before, so I know what that is like. What I am trying to get a handle on is the question of demand, you can't run a business without customers, and paying for a private education in a community that is as low income as ours may just not be an option for enough families to make it work.

Mahalo for everyone's replies.

Carol