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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sux, but once you get to 7th grade and can choose honors or regular, it starts to dissipate. By 9th it is over. My gen end kid did all 4 honors classes and got all As freshman year.

Just pay attention to which math course your kid gets out in, around 5th grade they start to differentiate and by 6th you’re either doing algebra in 7th, 8th or 9th grade. But algebra by 8th grade gets you to calculus by 12th grade and that’s all you need for top colleges. 
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AAP should be banned or go back to the old way, where kids didn’t switch schools in 3 to 6th. The center system creates an artificial system of have and have nots. It’s stupid. [/b][/quote]

Exactly this.  FCPS has done a severe disservice to ALL its students by separating and labeling huge groups of kids - most of whom are more academically alike than they are different.  Center schools are particularly insidious and my kids dreaded attending theirs.  Thank God for high school.[/quote]

We are at the base school and there is no LLIV for DS, it started after he had been selected. All of the kids in their particular grade know who is ahead and who is on level because of the LIII pull outs. In 5th grade the class is divided by Advanced Math or regular math. The Advanced Math class becomes the LLIV class, for all intents and purpose. The kids they think are ready for 6th grade math are in specific classes and the kids who are not are in different classes.

I have a friend who had one child in regular math and the other is now in Advanced Math. She wasn’t happy with the split when he one was not in the class but is thrilled that the other is. According to her, the regular class ends up with lots of kids who need more help to learn the material and more of the disruptive kids.

And the kids are aware which class they are in. DS’s Teacher told the kids they would be taking the grade 6 Math SOL at the Open House. They did the grade presentation as a whole and told the parents about the Advanced Math division.

I knew that I wasn’t in the advanced group in ES, we all knew who was in that group. It wasn’t hard to figure out. No matter how you divide the kids out, in class differentiation, different classes, different schools, the kids know.

And our base school offers chess and math club and all of those type of programs. They fill up fast. They are common clubs that are offered because there is an entire segment of the school that enjoys them. I would bet that yours also offers sports and other programs as well, just like our does. [/quote]

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