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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My thinking is that middle school seems young to channel kids into either a math or language specialty,[/b] especially since many of the magnet kids are excelling in both. I would be happy to see all the middle school magnets gone in exchange for true home school enrichment. I don’t have the data, but most middle schools should be big enough to have a cohort of at least 15 particularly bright children to take 2-4 enriched classes. The selection for those classes should be done by central, like the magnet school selection, so that pushy parents don’t get their kids into the classes by bullying the principal. It would basically create a true honors class in the middle schools, which was the original idea of honors but has been washed down because so many kids are now taking honors classes that the curriculum can’t really fly at the speed of those kids who are ready to GO.[/quote]

It doesn't, really. There are Humanities MS students who do SMACS or Global Ecology in high school, and there are also Math/Sci MS students who do humanities or IB in high school.[/quote]
But in the meantime, many have to pick enrichment for three years in just one area when they are actually capable of (and desire) both.[/quote]

Yes, life is full of difficult choices. This surely isn't the first, and it won't be the last.[/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

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