Which MS are doing the pilot program for enriched studies?
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Anonymous
How long before the same thing happens with this class? |
Anonymous
I doubt she read any of these books in any MCPS elementary school class, more likely on her own. This is vastly different than in middle school with written assignments and projects. |
Anonymous
| I’m not quite sure why you are so argumentative, but she did read the books in a W feeder in the 5th grade. |
Anonymous
NP here: people on this board love to tell people what they presume to know about other people's experience. If it happens at their school or in their kid's class, they assume every other school in the county is doing the same thing. |
Anonymous
I'm the pp poster and what you say rings true. I usually don't come to this board because some people are so insecure that they have to feel like there situation is better than everyone else and it seems to extend to their DC. Honestly, who cares what kids are reading in the 5th grade as long as your child is challenged and doing well? I can't imagine a situation where I would argue with an anonymous poster about what their elementary school kid is reading! |
Anonymous
How do you know they’re still in the advanced class with the cohort? Something seems off here. Also what did the earlier comment about the principal being tough mean—that he’s not supportive of the gifted stuff? What difference does it make if he’s forced to go along with it? |
Anonymous
Was the reading for the above books done at home? If so, I'm seeing in our low income school that homework has nearly been eliminated given that many students don't have support at home. And, to PP, I care what my kids are reading in ES. It shows what the expectations will or will not be in MS. |
Anonymous
6th grade students in EMS’s magnet are reading Watership Down at home. They read Gathering Blue over the summer. |
Anonymous
They're all in the top 3% according to their parents at least. |
Anonymous
Are you a Pyle admin? That's been the attitude in administration at Pyle. A counselor said it too. |
Anonymous
Wow. I'm surprised that a couple of books I read in the minor enrichment class in my elementary school (5th grade) class in the late 80s (*cough*) have been demoted to middle school magnet level now. That being said, a couple others I didn't read until AP English in high school. |
Anonymous
It's a shame that 6th graders are reading these books. There's no way they can fully grasp the meaning. |
Anonymous
I think it's ok for 6th graders to read things they don't fully grasp the meaning of. But I agree that they can't fully grasp the meaning of several of these works, particularly Animal Farm and Twelfth Night. And the sexism in Watership Down, in my opinion, is not balanced by literary merit (or scientific accuracy about rabbit society), so I regret to see it on a reading list for 6th graders. |
Anonymous
The whole goal of the classes was to keep high-performing kids together. When there was all that uproar about MCPS using the "peer cohort" criteria for admissions to magnets MCPS argued that the enriched classes would provide a magnet-lite experience within their regular schools by keeping the cohort together for those classes. The only justification for this, IMO, is if everyone at Pyle scores in the 99th percentile for reading/English. Do they? |
Anonymous
No, and the poster misunderstood what was said at BTSN. DC is at Pyle. There are several sections, but far from "all". |