Honors classes the same throughout the county?

[Anonymous]

These days they're primarily honors for all, which is to say they're mostly just regular grade-level classes. Honors don't really exist anymore because of the focus equity.

[Anonymous]

No they are not the same. My kids moved mid year from Whitman to another state. Totally different books in Honors 10th grade English class and an entirely different way of assessing / grading work. Much harder, in fact because they were also graded on class participation which was something like 30-40% of the grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These days they're primarily honors for all, which is to say they're mostly just regular grade-level classes. Honors don't really exist anymore because of the focus equity.

Correct. But the kids are still getting the benefit of the extra weighting for the class, which is just leading to grade inflation for MCPS overall. It's a mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No they are not the same. My kids moved mid year from Whitman to another state. Totally different books in Honors 10th grade English class and an entirely different way of assessing / grading work. Much harder, in fact because they were also graded on class participation which was something like 30-40% of the grade.

The W schools act and behave differently from many other MCPS high schools. The "honors for all" model is heavily prevalent in DCC schools, which have higher minority populations.

I'm not surprised that the W schools maintain the traditional distinctions between regular and honors versions of classes. Largely because parents in those schools would have an absolute fit if they pulled the stunts that MCPS is pulling with "honors for all" in the DCC and NEC.