7th grade intensified-APS

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid will read the whole book while the regular class reads excerpts. It’s all relative. Intensified compared to the remedial (“regular”) class? Yes. But hardly an honors class. If you want rigor, you’ll need to go private.

Nonsense, you certainly don't need to go private to find middle school rigor in Arlington, particularly with the roll out of the new 7th grade intensified science, social studies and English classes. You can bump up the intensified classes curriculum yourself by adding relevant readings that build off what the school is assigning and supplementing with tutors and summer enrichment camps if you can afford it. We incentivize our APS middle schoolers to read widely outside the curriculum and they cooperate. We also hire writing tutors to assign extra writing assignments. We pay around 5K a year per kid to add rigor. What we don't do is pay 30-45K for non-sectarian privates full of spoiled white kids living in cocoon worlds who don't necessarily put nose to the grindstone.

That PP is wrong. Probably doesn’t even have kids in APS.

Kids read full books in non-intensified classes.

100% right. Supplement if you're willing and able for MS in APS, particularly by promoting voracious reading and getting writing support. V. bright and hard-working kids can do fine in APS middle schools these days, even if they wind up aiming for one of the most highly competitive colleges in the country, as long as parents diligently top up what schools offer.

Private schools have their own grave problems with the pampering of students in cohorts that skew heavily white and wealthy.

We just finished 6th grade at one of the S. Arlington middle schools and my kid read several books and did a lot of writing. I don’t feel like we needed to supplement

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You’ll feel differently when your child eventually encounters other students who had rigorous schooling. I’m sure they seem just fine now compared to their peers at Gunston and Wakefield.

My kids are/were at DHMS. They are doing quite well. Older kid just got a ~750 on verbal PSAT on the first try. Guess they read enough books at DHMS.

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid will read the whole book while the regular class reads excerpts. It’s all relative. Intensified compared to the remedial (“regular”) class? Yes. But hardly an honors class. If you want rigor, you’ll need to go private.

Nonsense, you certainly don't need to go private to find middle school rigor in Arlington, particularly with the roll out of the new 7th grade intensified science, social studies and English classes. You can bump up the intensified classes curriculum yourself by adding relevant readings that build off what the school is assigning and supplementing with tutors and summer enrichment camps if you can afford it. We incentivize our APS middle schoolers to read widely outside the curriculum and they cooperate. We also hire writing tutors to assign extra writing assignments. We pay around 5K a year per kid to add rigor. What we don't do is pay 30-45K for non-sectarian privates full of spoiled white kids living in cocoon worlds who don't necessarily put nose to the grindstone.

That PP is wrong. Probably doesn’t even have kids in APS.

Kids read full books in non-intensified classes.

100% right. Supplement if you're willing and able for MS in APS, particularly by promoting voracious reading and getting writing support. V. bright and hard-working kids can do fine in APS middle schools these days, even if they wind up aiming for one of the most highly competitive colleges in the country, as long as parents diligently top up what schools offer.

Private schools have their own grave problems with the pampering of students in cohorts that skew heavily white and wealthy.

We just finished 6th grade at one of the S. Arlington middle schools and my kid read several books and did a lot of writing. I don’t feel like we needed to supplement

Same

You’ll feel differently when your child eventually encounters other students who had rigorous schooling. I’m sure they seem just fine now compared to their peers at Gunston and Wakefield.

Yes, Wakefield with its 30 AP classes is so much less rigorous than the public schools in N. Arlington. 🙄

I mean, it has more brown and poor kids, so the school must be awful, right? /s

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid will read the whole book while the regular class reads excerpts. It’s all relative. Intensified compared to the remedial (“regular”) class? Yes. But hardly an honors class. If you want rigor, you’ll need to go private.

Nonsense, you certainly don't need to go private to find middle school rigor in Arlington, particularly with the roll out of the new 7th grade intensified science, social studies and English classes. You can bump up the intensified classes curriculum yourself by adding relevant readings that build off what the school is assigning and supplementing with tutors and summer enrichment camps if you can afford it. We incentivize our APS middle schoolers to read widely outside the curriculum and they cooperate. We also hire writing tutors to assign extra writing assignments. We pay around 5K a year per kid to add rigor. What we don't do is pay 30-45K for non-sectarian privates full of spoiled white kids living in cocoon worlds who don't necessarily put nose to the grindstone.

That PP is wrong. Probably doesn’t even have kids in APS.

Kids read full books in non-intensified classes.

100% right. Supplement if you're willing and able for MS in APS, particularly by promoting voracious reading and getting writing support. V. bright and hard-working kids can do fine in APS middle schools these days, even if they wind up aiming for one of the most highly competitive colleges in the country, as long as parents diligently top up what schools offer.

Private schools have their own grave problems with the pampering of students in cohorts that skew heavily white and wealthy.

We just finished 6th grade at one of the S. Arlington middle schools and my kid read several books and did a lot of writing. I don’t feel like we needed to supplement

Same

You’ll feel differently when your child eventually encounters other students who had rigorous schooling. I’m sure they seem just fine now compared to their peers at Gunston and Wakefield.

Yes, Wakefield with its 30 AP classes is so much less rigorous than the public schools in N. Arlington. 🙄

I mean, it has more brown and poor kids, so the school must be awful, right? /s

That PP probably doesn’t have kids in APS. And maybe doesn’t even live in Arlington.

Haters gonna hate.

[Anonymous]

Got it. Everybody you disagree with on these boards can’t possibly have any children in APS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Got it. Everybody you disagree with on these boards can’t possibly have any children in APS.

On what are you basing your assertion that WL & YHS are “rigorous” and WHS is not? Do you have kids in all three schools? Teach there?

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You're mistaking me from somebody else. I'm not the PP you're responding to. Never asserted that.