Stuart Hobson MS
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Anonymous
8th grade advanced math at SH completed Algebra I and Geometry this year. That's as advanced as anything at Deal or Hardy. It's comparable to what I know from families in MoCo and Fairfax for advanced MS math. If you think that's "grade level" you have unreasonable expectations. |
Anonymous
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Deal and Hardy offer 7th grade algebra/geometry.
BASIS offers Algebra to a few 5th graders and a bunch of 6th graders, with everybody else taking it by 7th grade. |
Anonymous
| ^^PP is mistaken—Basis offers Algebra to a few 6th graders, not 5th graders.... |
Anonymous
We know a couple kids who took algebra in 5th at BASIS. BASIS teaches algebra to two or three 5th graders every year. |
Anonymous
Maybe they did. They don’t anymore. At least not the BASIS in DC. This year’s 5th grade at BASIS is not tracked. However, a few kids will be given the option to take algebra/geometry in 6th grade. Everyone else will take in 7th. |
Anonymous
| Yes, not tracked because of distance learning! |
Anonymous
I’m not sure it’s due to DL. It may be more permanent. At least that was my impression after an exchange this fall with the 5th grade math teacher. |
Anonymous
Really, remedial? My kid was in the regular classes before being placed in the advanced track and it didn't seem remedial. Does Deal have advanced science and social studies? I am trying to figure out what we are missing out on at Stuart Hobson that I have to supplement. |
Anonymous
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No, technically Deal doesn't offer advanced science or social studies. But Deal has dramatically different demographics that SH. The student body is majority white and UMC in a city where the achievement gap isn't a gap, it's a chasm.
PARCC scores don't offer anything like the full picture of the chasm. Concerned that your kid's science class isn't sufficiently challenging as a Deal parent? No problem, enroll your student in a high-powered summer STEM science camp or two. Not satisfied with social studies rigor? Watch History Channel documentaries with your kid, take them to Civil War battle reenactments, history museums and historical sites. Encourage them to read historic fiction. What you're missing at SH is a majority of peers with the resources and support at home to place themselves on a DIY advanced track for science and social studies. This is irregardless of what DCPS policy on academic tracking dictates. |
Anonymous
All of this is speculative nonsense. Plus, why would we take any insight on advanced learning of anything when you use "irregardless." |