New middle school enriched and accelerated classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did people learn that some schools are offering more than one class each of the two new classes? Was that discussed at the meeting last night? I thought every school was getting at least one or the other, and some both, but I hadn’t heard that there could be more than one of each class at any given school. The more the better as long as there is need, but I am curious where the info is coming from.

Some people probably learned this by talking to a counselor at the middle school.

[Anonymous]

At Hoover, 4 sections for Applied IM and 2 sections for Global Humanities. All sections are already full and that cutoff was decided by the county.

[Anonymous]

That means, at Hoover, about 33% will be taking Applied IM and about 17% for Global Humanitites.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone received a letter from Westland? Any idea how many kids/sections for each class?ff

[Anonymous]

I talked with a school counselor. there are about 25 students per each section. School did not determine the list of students who may qualify for the new courses. Basically, the list was sent to a local school from AEI.

[Anonymous]

Cabin John letters finally arriving, by USPS

[Anonymous]

Sligo letter came today.

[Anonymous]

Which schools got only one of the classes? Sligo got both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's like "honors" classes at some schools all over again. I thought about 40 percent of the students at Pyle took IM in 6th. If there are 100 in the new enriched IM then that's 25 percent of the total 6th grade leaving 15 percent in just IM.

Why not just put everyone on the compacted or accelerated track in the enriched classes?

The incoming 6th grade Pyle class is the largest ever with more than 600 students.

How much increase numbers wise is there overall at Pyle next year? Are the 7th and 8th grade classes bigger than typical too?

The current seventh grade at Pyle is smaller than the eighth grade, although I think the average grade size is roughly 500. If there are 600 incoming sixth graders, that will be the largest class while my kids were at Pyle (my older is at Whitman now).

Clue in this uninformed Pyle parent, please - are these accelerated classes just offered to the incoming sixth graders? To my knowledge, no one has mentioned any accelerated math or humanities classes next year for my current seventh grader.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's like "honors" classes at some schools all over again. I thought about 40 percent of the students at Pyle took IM in 6th. If there are 100 in the new enriched IM then that's 25 percent of the total 6th grade leaving 15 percent in just IM.

Why not just put everyone on the compacted or accelerated track in the enriched classes?

The incoming 6th grade Pyle class is the largest ever with more than 600 students.

How much increase numbers wise is there overall at Pyle next year? Are the 7th and 8th grade classes bigger than typical too?

The current seventh grade at Pyle is smaller than the eighth grade, although I think the average grade size is roughly 500. If there are 600 incoming sixth graders, that will be the largest class while my kids were at Pyle (my older is at Whitman now).

Clue in this uninformed Pyle parent, please - are these accelerated classes just offered to the incoming sixth graders? To my knowledge, no one has mentioned any accelerated math or humanities classes next year for my current seventh grader.

Yes, just to the class of 6th graders that got tested as part of the pilot program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which schools got only one of the classes? Sligo got both.

Cabin John got both, though I don't know how many sections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which schools got only one of the classes? Sligo got both.

Cabin John got both, though I don't know how many sections.

Do you know if most/all kids who attended the 5th grade CES are on the list?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which schools got only one of the classes? Sligo got both.

Cabin John got both, though I don't know how many sections.

Do you know if most/all kids who attended the 5th grade CES are on the list?

I only know mine is, due to the letter. But my guess is that most of the 5th grade CES students are also 99 composite COGAT students with high MAP scores etc.,. and will also get in. My DC tells me most are STEM kids (apparently the CES humanities teacher often complains about kids not doing her work), so I just don't know how many will get into the math course only, or both courses. I don't have enough direct knowledge to guess, and also don't know how many sections will be offered. The most important thing is that the peer cohort will be there, which is great.

[Anonymous]

Ces kids don’t do humanities homework only Science and math?? How’s their grammar and writing feedback then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ces kids don’t do humanities homework only Science and math?? How’s their grammar and writing feedback then?

Take this with a grain of salt, because I am not confident DC is a reliable reporter, but he claims the humanities teacher stated many students currently have Cs and Ds in her class this quarter because they're not turning in their essay assignments. Dc believes those kids only care about the Math and Science units.