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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has done away with any meaningful distinctions between honors and on-level courses. If your school offers only honors-level Bio, it's pretty much a regular bio class with honors being in name only.

I assume schools that offer both on-level and honors versions of the same class have some differences,  but I've never been able to get a clear articulation of what those differences are from educators or counselors.[/quote]

+1. Soon all subjects (unless it is remedial) will be honors for all. Take the BCC example (this happens in other highschools too). You have these mixed classrooms where honors kids are not doing meaningfully harder work, but, they are getting the GPA boost. Teachers recognize that it isn't really fair to the "non-honors" kids (who also are more likely to be brown). What I don't understand is why MCPS parents continue to accept these mixed level classrooms. These mixed level classrooms and the extreme grade inflation are the main reason we moved to private for HS.[/quote]

Why don't we just do away with honors as a concept all together if this is how it's going to be?

Then you just have regular classes and AP classes? I really don't understand how we got to this place but since we're here, it's insane to do things the way that we are.[/quote]

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