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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In LS/MS, all group projects — individual competency checks don’t exist.  No more honors math in 7th/8th.  Smart girls sit around and wait.

Maybe the girls who do well in US enter in 9th?[/quote]

Interesting, thanks. This misguided approach hasn’t been good for our high achiever kid at another school. Lots of spinning wheels and lack of progress.[/quote]

I love the non-differentiation is middle school.  They have math challenge groups for those who need it and do subtle differentiation the classroom - it is not labeled as such but it is there.  Girls can pick harder problems, for example.  There was a graphing project and those who wanted to be challenged graphed way harder pictures, for example.  My daughter will end up in multi-variable calculus (and I believe there might be 1-2 girls who do independent study who are maybe doing number theory?  Not sure).  So I balk at the idea that girls are not challenged or don’t end up in high-level math.  And, when things have been easy for my daughter, she uses the extra time to do other activities, which feels mentally healthy.  Not a problem in my book. [/quote]

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