What are folks doing for MS EOTP?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe this has already been discussed, but 2 Rivers and Inspired Teaching are both good options for middle school ETOP.

Not really. No real rigor in either program.

Not everyone prioritizes 'rigor' for MS.

Why not?

Because middle school is where kids start to branch out in their interests, trying new skills and deeper into subject matter, they are shifting learning techniques - more executive functioning and organization/planning. Plus. there are big shifts is social-emotional development. Middle school is a balance between the individual and the material, even more than high school.

The obvious problem is that the economic competition around the world does tend to value rigor in K-8 learning. As an immigrant from the UK, I've been underwhelmed by the DCPS curriculum for academic subjects in the upper elementary grades, particularly ELA. We like our Capitol Hill neighborhood and urban lifestyle, but find that we must supplement extensively to try to keep up with the curriculum in our native country, and the sort of rigor we encountered for our oldest child at an ordinary "state" school in London before we moved to DC. In London, kids who worked behind grade level were not permitting in regular classrooms until they'd caught up, other than for special subjects. They were pulled out for intensive small group work until they caught up. No kidding.

We will leave it to DCPS to celebrate big shifts in socio-emotional development in middle school. BASIS or move for us.

That's really interesting! I attended a middle-class state school in the East Midlands and find the DCPS curriculum much more challenging for math. In English kids seem to read more in the US and deeper in the UK. There's probably a lot of variation in UK schools just like there are across different schools in DC.