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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but it is a tighter spigot for who gets in. You should get a letter about it -- for us it came a couple of weeks after the end of school. You could also ask your kid's current teacher.[/quote]

That's odd. It seems like everyone in our school is in the advanced classes.[/quote]

The rules changed last year. DD was in 4/5 but didn't make the cut for 5/6. They had 25 kids in 4/5 and only three of them qualified for 5/6.  I might have been annoyed because DD has an IEP and her teachers said she could handle the material and get good grades, but the only measurement tool was something DD had not done well on. It was brought up at her meeting and admin confirmed that they could not take teacher recommendations anymore.[/quote]

Do you mind me asking what was the measurement tool that determined they could not go to 5/6 math.  I also have a student on an IEP that does not test well on the MAP-M but this is not always reflective of the in class knowledge.[/quote]

I wish I could recall. Maybe do a search on this board and something will come up. We had that meeting in May 2021, and the decision had just come down. DD did not do well on MAP tests or any of the checkpoints, especially virtually. She would sometimes refuse to test or would open the test but not work on it. In a classroom setting, she has an accommodation where she takes tests in a small group and the teacher can "strongly encourage" her to get going. She would also get overwhelmed with the length of a test and freeze. Again, in the classroom, with an actual human in her presence, the teacher could present the test one or two questions at a time, and do little things like not have a timer visible and offer stretch breaks. I would have pushed back more on the 5/6 thing if I thought it would do any good, but I also found out that because so few kids had qualified, they would be taken to another room during math and participate in virtual instruction. So we let it go and DD has enjoyed her "easy" 5th grade math class.

For middle school, we were offered to let her go into the class that follows 5/6 (I forget the name), but we decided that since math is not a favorite subject, we would just let her follow the regular track. So even if your child does not go to 5/6, it may be possible to jump back onto that track in middle school. Seemed like there was more freedom for the case manager and teachers to make recommendations.[/quote]

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