Ybor City Tape

Wilson interview

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 teachers from over here that had worked with special kids

 and so forth to take to 0. Grove to start my sixth-grade job

 there. And in fact, when I went to Madison we set up, I've

 forgotten what you call it, but we set up one basic teacher to

 teach English and social studies and science, I think. And

 then they went to the other departments. Similar to a platoon

 type situation even in ... the sixth grades that came to us

 see, they took the seventh out here. Well, the sixth grades

 that came to us at Madison were seventh-graders. We took
 that
 that process, I figured/if we'd-take the process they had in

 the self-contained classroom in the sixth grade, keep them in

 a self-contained classroom for half the day and then let them

 get into this other as seventh graders, and then in the eighth

 grade they went into i regular departmentalization in the

 ninth grade.

M: This was out in Pr____ Grove, though.

W: Well, no, this was at Madison.

M: So in a sense ...

W: I don't remember whether I started it at X+ Grove that

 year or not. I don't think I did.

M: What's interesting is you took ideas from Ybor and took them

 elsewhere.

W: Yeah. Instead of being a platoon, I called it, I've forgotten what