re: the comment by 8-31-12, 19:05, who wrote "The adoption of Core Curriculum seems to have meant the death of meaningful differentiation in math at Norwood, and current staff seem oblivious as to the benefits of acceleration for mathematical kids. WES is moving in the opposite direction and will be offering Geometry in 8th grade this year"

just trying to correct an error in the above, not criticizing the pp for the error: WES is NOT moving in the opposite direction: WES is not planning to offer Geometry in 8th grade every year; it is offering Geometry only for this year, only for a small subset of the 8th grade students. Geometry is being offered as a one-off for this year because the kids' (admirably-determined) parents successfully lobbied/pressured the school into offering it for their kids. The school agreed to offer it just for this year, just for those kids.