MS/HS recommendations for artsy kid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to know what a given school does, ultimately your best source is to contact that school directly. Presumably your DC is not headed directly to Loiederman this fall or you'd already have their math placement. You can call and ask to speak to the counselor who is assigned to rising 6th graders in order to find out what they are doing right now and how it works.

The catch is that what is available next year may vary according to everything from student needs to teacher availability. Anything you learn now will only be possible for next year, not guaranteed. And that is still likely to be true when school requests are placed in November and when school assignments are posted in the spring.

My DC was placed in something with an acronym in 6th (AMP, maybe?) and is in algebra in 7th. More than enough for DC and for us. What was important for us is that DC's 6th grade course contained 6th graders who were willing to work, not 8th graders (for example) who had fallen behind. For us the social cohort was more important than the mathematical content.

Or one might ask here, since the poster who noted Algebra in 6th at Loiederman presumably has exposure to the topic and MCPS, both local-school and central, is rather reticent about it. Non-Loiederman families have an advocacy interest in the practices employed there, but not at their home school, that better would meet the academic needs of their DCs.

A common understanding of specifics helps with that. Keeping the information occult facilitates opportunity hoarding.

You are exhausting. This is a low income school that uses the arts to draw students for higher test scores. It’s hit or miss. Our year multiple parents pulled out and sent kids to their home school, including us.

None of that precludes disclosure of a known placement practice. I'm glad Loiederman is offering that to meet need/ability, where appropriate. Why not make that practice plainly known to encourage other schools to do the same?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to know what a given school does, ultimately your best source is to contact that school directly. Presumably your DC is not headed directly to Loiederman this fall or you'd already have their math placement. You can call and ask to speak to the counselor who is assigned to rising 6th graders in order to find out what they are doing right now and how it works.

The catch is that what is available next year may vary according to everything from student needs to teacher availability. Anything you learn now will only be possible for next year, not guaranteed. And that is still likely to be true when school requests are placed in November and when school assignments are posted in the spring.

My DC was placed in something with an acronym in 6th (AMP, maybe?) and is in algebra in 7th. More than enough for DC and for us. What was important for us is that DC's 6th grade course contained 6th graders who were willing to work, not 8th graders (for example) who had fallen behind. For us the social cohort was more important than the mathematical content.

Or one might ask here, since the poster who noted Algebra in 6th at Loiederman presumably has exposure to the topic and MCPS, both local-school and central, is rather reticent about it. Non-Loiederman families have an advocacy interest in the practices employed there, but not at their home school, that better would meet the academic needs of their DCs.

A common understanding of specifics helps with that. Keeping the information occult facilitates opportunity hoarding.

You are exhausting. This is a low income school that uses the arts to draw students for higher test scores. It’s hit or miss. Our year multiple parents pulled out and sent kids to their home school, including us.

None of that precludes disclosure of a known placement practice. I'm glad Loiederman is offering that to meet need/ability, where appropriate. Why not make that practice plainly known to encourage other schools to do the same?

Call them and ask if you want to know. What other schools do is not relevant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to know what a given school does, ultimately your best source is to contact that school directly. Presumably your DC is not headed directly to Loiederman this fall or you'd already have their math placement. You can call and ask to speak to the counselor who is assigned to rising 6th graders in order to find out what they are doing right now and how it works.

The catch is that what is available next year may vary according to everything from student needs to teacher availability. Anything you learn now will only be possible for next year, not guaranteed. And that is still likely to be true when school requests are placed in November and when school assignments are posted in the spring.

My DC was placed in something with an acronym in 6th (AMP, maybe?) and is in algebra in 7th. More than enough for DC and for us. What was important for us is that DC's 6th grade course contained 6th graders who were willing to work, not 8th graders (for example) who had fallen behind. For us the social cohort was more important than the mathematical content.

Or one might ask here, since the poster who noted Algebra in 6th at Loiederman presumably has exposure to the topic and MCPS, both local-school and central, is rather reticent about it. Non-Loiederman families have an advocacy interest in the practices employed there, but not at their home school, that better would meet the academic needs of their DCs.

A common understanding of specifics helps with that. Keeping the information occult facilitates opportunity hoarding.

You are exhausting. This is a low income school that uses the arts to draw students for higher test scores. It’s hit or miss. Our year multiple parents pulled out and sent kids to their home school, including us.

None of that precludes disclosure of a known placement practice. I'm glad Loiederman is offering that to meet need/ability, where appropriate. Why not make that practice plainly known to encourage other schools to do the same?

Call them and ask if you want to know. What other schools do is not relevant

You missed both the bit about MCPS being reticent and the bit about having specifics enabling advocacy (while keeping things under wraps perpetuates inequity).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to know what a given school does, ultimately your best source is to contact that school directly. Presumably your DC is not headed directly to Loiederman this fall or you'd already have their math placement. You can call and ask to speak to the counselor who is assigned to rising 6th graders in order to find out what they are doing right now and how it works.

The catch is that what is available next year may vary according to everything from student needs to teacher availability. Anything you learn now will only be possible for next year, not guaranteed. And that is still likely to be true when school requests are placed in November and when school assignments are posted in the spring.

My DC was placed in something with an acronym in 6th (AMP, maybe?) and is in algebra in 7th. More than enough for DC and for us. What was important for us is that DC's 6th grade course contained 6th graders who were willing to work, not 8th graders (for example) who had fallen behind. For us the social cohort was more important than the mathematical content.

Or one might ask here, since the poster who noted Algebra in 6th at Loiederman presumably has exposure to the topic and MCPS, both local-school and central, is rather reticent about it. Non-Loiederman families have an advocacy interest in the practices employed there, but not at their home school, that better would meet the academic needs of their DCs.

A common understanding of specifics helps with that. Keeping the information occult facilitates opportunity hoarding.

You are exhausting. This is a low income school that uses the arts to draw students for higher test scores. It’s hit or miss. Our year multiple parents pulled out and sent kids to their home school, including us.

None of that precludes disclosure of a known placement practice. I'm glad Loiederman is offering that to meet need/ability, where appropriate. Why not make that practice plainly known to encourage other schools to do the same?

Call them and ask if you want to know. What other schools do is not relevant

You missed both the bit about MCPS being reticent and the bit about having specifics enabling advocacy (while keeping things under wraps perpetuates inequity).

This is one of the few things mcps does for down county kids. You have have no idea what true inequity is. Look at Einstein. It’s supposed to be an arts program and does not have as many arts as other schools. There is no math after calc bc, no ap science classes and few other electives. Your kids will be fine taking algebra in 7th. There is no huge advantage.

If you want to know about it do your research. It’s been talked about many times here. It’s principal driven.