APS middle school math placement (DHMS)

[Anonymous]

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When will we hear about math placement for next year for middle school kids? My DS is at DHMS and we still haven't heard anything. Will it come with the report card? I assume the report card will be posted sometime today?



You expect to hear about math placement for next year during the last few days of school, when the entire staff is packing up, turning in grades, and focusing on the 8th grade promotion? You sound very entitled.



Yes. Instead of when a bunch of people who don’t know my kid are left to just do it without being able to reach out to teachers who actually know my kid.

This isn't how it works. The teachers may make recommendations based on performance and scores, but the math coaches and guidance counselors make the placements.

Again, for my rising sixth grader, a guidance counselor and math coach who have never met my kid.

Yes, and its awful. If your kid is good at math and does poorly on one test at the end of fifth grade the middle school math lead and counselors will put them in a not-challenging math class and good luck getting it changed. I had to go down to the school and argue in person with the math lead for both my kids to get them out of basic sixth grade math and into the pre-algebra track and they had been on the Math Dice team, done math in the Hopkins CTY program in the summers, always been in advanced math group in elementary, etc.

[Anonymous]

It won't matter at all if your kid takes math 6 or pre-algebra. Also, you can overrule the decision if you really feel that strongly about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It won't matter at all if your kid takes math 6 or pre-algebra. Also, you can overrule the decision if you really feel that strongly about it.

This. You can sign up for whatever you feel is appropriate.