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[quote=RedTailHawk]Looking at the Frost middle school &quot;academic planning bulletin&quot;, this course is listed in the &quot;Special Programs&quot; section with other intervention/support classes (e.g. basic reading, ESOL, academic support class, ...)

On the Frost 6th grade registration card (where students list their preferences for top four elective classes of which they will be assigned two) Digital Literacy is listed under &quot;arts&quot; category heading along with Art 6 rotation (art, FACS, specialty art & computers).  The other elective categories are &quot;world language&quot; (French, Spanish, Chinese) and &quot;music&quot; (chorus, orchestra, band).  The card also says &quot;World Language is not a requirement for Middle School.  Support classes take the place of elective courses.&quot;

Digital Literacy is listed on the Frost registration card as course # 1057 but the description in the MCPS middle school course bulletin ([url]http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/middleschool/2016-2017MiddleSchoolCourseBulletin.pdf[/url]) is different than what is in the Frost academic planning bulletin ([url]http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/schools/robertfrostms/news/2017-2018%20COURSEBULLETIN%20010917%20PROOF%2011316.docx[/url]).  The first 2 sentences are the same but the Frost one continues with text that sounds (imho) a bit like a remedial class (e.g. &quot;learn how to read and navigate websites, search engines...).

Looking at the Parkland middle school &quot;course bulletin&quot;, this course is listed under &quot;6th grade electives&quot; and the description is followed with &quot;* Some students may be placed in a different Reading Intervention course based on student data and teacher recommendation.&quot; It looks like students are required to take the digital literacy if they opt out of taking a world language class.  (Parkland world language class offerings are French, Spanish, Chinese or &quot;Awareness of Academic Language and Culture&quot;.)

--&gt;&gt; Is Digital Literacy an appropriate choice for a computer savvy student with very strong reading scores that *really* doesn't want to learn a new language in middle school.  (DC is very interested in learning ASL but that is not a middle school class.)

Also, if I am reading this correctly, 6th grade Parkland students are only allowed one science/music elective.  It seems really strange to me that a science oriented magnet would force students to choose between taking  instrumental music (guitar, band or orchestra) and taking a science elective.

TIA

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