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[quote=Anonymous]I want to get people's experiences and expectations on differentiation for kids who do well east of Rock Creek Park as they reach middle school.

I'll lay my cards out: my son is a couple years away from middle school at a mid-city DCPS elementary school and edging up on middle school math now while he's already reading at that level. He has a couple of friends who are just the same (and not all white or male, thank God), and really loves his friends at school even though they may not read or test as well. I want him to stay with his friends, period, and at his school, differentiation has worked. He is still making progress but it's clear that in middle school he basically needs to be prepared to move up a rung in at least a couple classes even if he is able to be in the same school as his friends.

A couple years ago there were promises (I think) that we'd actually have algebra available, harder English classes available at the schools that are supposed to be there for our kids in Wards 1, 4, and 5. So I'm talking about Cardozo, Lincoln, McFarland, Brookland, McKinley...maybe others.

Does DCPS have a plan to actually have those classes for those kids? If they are already in place, how is it going now? What has been your experience?

Again - we want to stick it out despite any negativity and give our son a chance to go to school with his friends and, I'll be transparent, the diverse experience growing up that his parents did not in typical 80s suburbs, without holding back his learning opportunities. I want to know that an advancing path of learning for kids who are above grade level is going to be there when this cohort gets there in two years. I don't want the world - I mostly just want to know that it's not like "Brookland promised Algebra in 7th grade but since there weren't more than 4 or 5 students they just sent them to 'study hall' with a couple of computers" or similar bullshit.[/quote]

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